[Answer]-Automate some entries in Django models passing the entry value from same model

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That’s not where you would do it. You can’t write something at the class level that depends on an instance attribute of the class: it’s simply not possible. And what’s more, a default is allocated when the object is instantiated, but you want that to change after the user has changed the value of another attribute, so this isn’t a default at all.

Instead you probably want to define this value on save. That’s easy to do by simply overriding the save method:

def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
    if not self.uid:
        self.uid = str(shortuuid.uuid(name=self.user))
    return super(website, self).save(*args, **kwargs)
👤Daniel Roseman

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