id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
6272	django.utils.translation.ugettext_lazy needs __add__ support	Tai Lee <real.human@…>	nobody	"The model fields defined in django.contrib.auth.models (and I assume other parts of django) use django.utils.translation.ugettext_lazy to specify the label (or another property from which the label is derived). The form field objects generated by form_for_* and ModelForm on these models return a {{{django.utils.functional.__proxy__}}} object instead of a unicode object where ugettex_lazy is not used.

I have a few helper template tags which are trying to alter the form field label with a concatenation, which is throwing an error for form_for_model and ModelForm forms for django.contrib.auth.models.User (and other django/contrib models that use ugettext_lazy).

As the documentation doesn't recommend or require the use of ugettext_lazy in it's examples and tutorials when defining models and forms, this inconsistent behaviour seems less than ideal. If {{{django.utils.functional.__proxy__}}} could be changed with an {{{__add__}}} (and other?) methods to behave more like a string/unicode object, that would be good?

"	New feature	closed	Core (Other)	dev	Normal	wontfix	ugettext_lazy unicode concatenate	real.human@…	Design decision needed	0	0	0	0	0	0