Getting error trying out formfield_overrides to alter TextField field size, per Django documentation

Question

Trying to follow these directions in documentation: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.formfield_overrides

Getting this error msg: 'module' object has no attribute 'TextField'
What am I missing?

This code in models.py

class MyTest(models.Model):
    mydesc = models.TextField(_('my desc'), )

This code in admin.py (noting relevant imports)

from django.contrib import admin
from django.db import models
from django.forms import Textarea  
from myproject.myapp import MyTest  


class MySizedTextarea(forms.Textarea):  
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):  
    attrs = kwargs.setdefault('attrs', {})
    attrs.setdefault('cols', 80)  
    attrs.setdefault('rows', 1)  
    super(MySizedTextarea, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)  

class MyTestAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):  
    fields = ('mydesc', )  
    formfield_overrides = { models.TextField: {'widget': MySizedTextarea}, }

Note: I was inspired to try this method since it appears in the documentation and in the example supplied by Carl Meyer to this question. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/910169/resize-fields-in-django-admin/911915#911915. — Judith Boonstra, Mar 11 '11 at 13:16

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 06 '11 at 14:38

Try specifying the namespace for models more explicitly (for example, if using the GIS models):

import django.contrib.gis.db.models


class MyAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    formfield_overrides = { django.contrib.gis.db.models.TextField: {'widget': forms.TextInput(attrs={'size':20})},}

Getting error trying out formfield_overrides to alter TextField field size, per Django documentation

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