DRY django models, creating a list of objects - django

Question

I have some model for a user profile and I want to be able to store several types of information but with some deferences (like a home or work phone number) but I don't want to use a ForeignKey relation ...how would I do that?
something like:
class Profile(models.Model):
phone = ? list of some kind ?
class Phone(???):
TYPE_CHOICES = (
('H', 'Home'),
('W', 'Work'),
('F', 'Fax'),
)
type = models.CharField(max_length = 1, choices = TYPE_CHOICES)
number = models.CharField(max_length = 16)
private = models.BooleanField()
Thank you!
Edit: I didn't want to use a foreign key just because I originally wanted all information relating to a user to show up on the profile admin page. but... meh... that's not too critical

Answer 1

Why don't you want to use a foreign key? If you want to have multiple phone numbers, that's the way you need/must do it.
It's easy to work with Django and foreign keys, and you can easily add an inline model formset into the admin page to create/edit a user profile with plenty of phone numbers.
Your models should look like this:
class Profile(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=40, verbose_name="User name")
class Phone(models.Model):
TYPE_CHOICES = (
('H', 'Home'),
('W', 'Work'),
('F', 'Fax'),
)
profile = models.ForeignKey(Profile)
type = models.CharField(max_length = 1, choices = TYPE_CHOICES)
number = models.CharField(max_length = 16)
private = models.BooleanField()
Then, you could use something like this to easily add/edit multiple phone numbers per profile in one admin page.
In your example, you should do something like this (inside admin.py file, in your django app):
class PhoneInline(admin.TabularInline):
model = Phone
class ProfileAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
inlines = [
PhoneInline,
]
admin.site.register(Profile, ProfileAdmin)
Now, you can go to the admin interface and try to add a new profile. You will see that you can add multiple phones per profile. I hope it helps you...
Finally, i'll recommend you to take a tour on django's tutorials. You will understand a lot of things and you will get a good idea of how to work with it.