Want to find date data in python shell

Question

I have a model something like this.

#models.py
class ItemStatusHistory(models.Model):
 date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now = True)
 contact = models.ForeignKey(Contact)
 item = models.ForeignKey(StorageItem)
 status = models.ForeignKey(Status)
 user = models.ForeignKey(User)
 def __unicode__(self):
 return str(self.status)

I want to be able to find the date data using

python manage.py shell

But I want to keep the unicode object as status. Do I use a filter lookup?

• Daniel Roseman: What do you mean exactly, 'find the date data'?
• Shehzad009: I have stored some data for date, contact, item, status, user. I want to be able to see the data I put in for these objects using python manage.py shell. Not the admin.
• S.Lott: Are you asking how to write command-line applications that use the Django ORM? stackoverflow.com/questions/3351951/…

Answer 1

Get the object from the django db in the usual way and access foo.name_of_attribute:

The example in the django docs should help, see:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/

 >>> p = Poll.objects.get(pk=1)
 >>> p.pub_date
 datetime.datetime(2007, 7, 15, 12, 00, 53)

And thats a standard python datetime thing.

Answer 2

When returning date to the python shell you could just use

from time import asctime
#print asctime()