[Answered ]-Django model field values returning blank?

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The __str__ only returns the self.first_name hence it means that it will print the Person as <Person: last_name> with last_name the last_name of the Person.

If you thus rewrite this to:

from django.db import models

class Person(models.Model):
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=15)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=6)

    def __str__(self):
        return f'{self.first_name} {self.last_name}'

it will print the person object with its first and last name.

But saving it in the database, and retrieving it works, regardless of the implementation of __str__.

If you for example obtain the .last_name attribute, it will print:

>>> Person.objects.get(id=some_id).last_name
'...'
👤willeM_ Van Onsem

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