Index: docs/model-api.txt
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--- docs/model-api.txt	(revision 4613)
+++ docs/model-api.txt	(working copy)
@@ -498,6 +498,13 @@
     class Foo(models.Model):
         gender = models.CharField(maxlength=1, choices=GENDER_CHOICES)
 
+For each field on your model which has ``choices`` set, Django will
+add a method to retrieve the human-readable name for the field's
+current value; see `get_FOO_display`_ in the database API
+documentation.
+
+.. _get_FOO_display: ../db_api/#get-foo-display
+
 Finally, note that choices can be any iterable object -- not necessarily a
 list or tuple. This lets you construct choices dynamically. But if you find
 yourself hacking ``choices`` to be dynamic, you're probably better off using