Django Model Foreign Key to text

Question

There is a problem, there is a Book model and in it title is the name of the book, and author is the ForeignKey of the Author model where there is a name field. I need to get a Python list and for this I do books = list(Book.objects.values('title', 'author') , but the result is a list [{'title': 'Harry Potter', 'author': 1}] . How do I make sure that the author is instead of the unit?

Answer 1

The quickest fix for you is books = list(Book.objects.values('title', 'author__name') . In the assumption that author model has name field.