Unicode

There are 3 built-in methods for string conversion -

__str__()

Called when print statement and str() on any object is called.

__str__ will return a human readable string.
__unicode__()
- Called when unicode() is called on any object, if it exists, and otherwise falls back to __str__() and decodes the result with the system encoding.
- Python 3, there's simply __str__(), which must return str(text)
- There is also __bytes__(), but
__repr__()

Called by the repr() built-in function and by string conversions to compute the official string representation of an object.

__repr__ will return an internal representation (machine representable format string)

__repr__ can be invoked on an object by calling repr(obj) or by using backticks obj

While printing lists as well as other container classes, the contained elements will be printed using __repr__.

Solution

Django

Define __str__() method returning text and apply python_2_unicode_compatible() decorator.

Final Code Snippet to follow

class Test(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100)

    def __str__(self):
        return '{}'.format(self.name)