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The default choice field display of a reference property in appengine returns the choices as the string representation of the entire object. What is the best method to override this behaviour? I tried to override str() in the referenced class. But it does not work.

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I got it to work by overriding the init method of the modelform to pick up the correct fields as I had to do filtering of the choices as well.

Sriram
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The correct way would be to override the __unicode__ method of the class, like:

def __unicode__(self):
    return self.name

where name is the value that you want to display.

Randell
That is correct. I think my scenario was a bit different and I don't remember now.
Sriram