Django: Ordering by the first value of a tuple

Question

I have a 7-tuple of tuples as such:

POSSIBILITIES = ((1, "Something"),
                 (2, "Something else"), ...)

Now I have an IntegerField with choices in a model with the possibilities listed above.

class Something(models.Model):

    class Meta:
        ordering = "...?"

    something = models.IntegerField(choices=POSSIBILITIES)

I want the entries in the database to be ordered by the integer in each of the tuples by default. How do I specify that?

Answer 1

ordering = ('something',) should work. The integer values are what is actually stored for something in the database, so they would be ordered by the integers by default.

Answer 2

This should do the trick:

class Meta:
    ordering = ('something',)

The last comma is important, it is required.