Error with coding in Django 1.9.2

Question

I created a model and two values ​​in a database. The first in Cyrillic and the second in Latin.

from __future__ import unicode_literals from django.db import models class Lecturer(models.Model): fname = models.CharField('First name', max_length=200) mname = models.CharField('Middle name',max_length=200) lname = models.CharField('Last name', max_length=200) pub_date = models.DateTimeField('Date published') def __str__(self): return "{} {} {}" .format(self.fname, self.mname, self.lname) 

It seems to be working fine

But when I try to click the link and edit the Cyrillic value, I get an error.

 UnicodeEncodeError at /admin/lecturers/lecturer/2/change/ 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-3: ordinal not in range(128) Request Method: GET Request URL: http://localhost:8000/admin/lecturers/lecturer/2/change/ Django Version: 1.9.2 Exception Type: UnicodeEncodeError Exception Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-3: ordinal not in range(128) Exception Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/utils/encoding.py in force_text, line 80 Python Executable: /usr/bin/python Python Version: 2.7.6 Python Path: ['/home/vald/project', '/usr/lib/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-i386-linux-gnu', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PILcompat', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntu-sso-client'] Server time: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 20:30:07 +0200 

Answer 1

To use the __str__ method over __unicode__ in Python 2.7, use the provided python_2_unicode_compatible decorator:

 from __future__ import unicode_literals from django.db import models from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible @python_2_unicode_compatible class Lecturer(models.Model): fname = models.CharField('First name', max_length=200) mname = models.CharField('Middle name',max_length=200) lname = models.CharField('Last name', max_length=200) pub_date = models.DateTimeField('Date published') def __str__(self): return "{} {} {}" .format(self.fname, self.mname, self.lname) 

Otherwise, you will have to use __unicode__ on top of __str__ .