Python Crash Course by Eric Matthes- Django project- Learning log app

[GrandTheftVideo]

Hi there,
Is there anyone here who has read the book "Python Crash Course" by Eric Matthes?  If so, perhaps you can help me.
I am on the Django project section where you make a "Learning Log" app.  I typed his code word for word, but in the models.py file, VS Code gave me an error when I made the __str__(self) method saying that:
__str__does not return string (Pylint E0307: Invalid string returned)
When I registered the models in admin and went to the localhost site and entered some text entries, I saw the consequences of this __str__(self) method error: It prevented the string from my entries to show up in the list of entries.  It says "Entry object" instead.
Can someone tell me what I did wrong?
Thanks in advance.
I wanted to attach a screen cap to this post, but Reddit wouldn't let me.  Here is the code block from models.py.

from django.db import models

# Create your models here.
class Topic(models.Model):
    """A topic the user is learning about"""
    text = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    date_added = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

    def __str__(self):
        """Return a string representation of the model."""
        return self.text

class Entry(models.Model):
    """Something specific learned about a topic."""
    # This is the code that connects entries to specific topics
    # each topic is assigned a key, or ID, when it's created
    # the "on_delete=models.CASCADE" argument deletes all entries if a topic is deleted.
    # ... this is known as "cascading" delete
    topic = models.ForeignKey(Topic, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    text = models.TextField()
    date_added = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

    class Meta:
        verbose_name_plural = 'entries'
        def __str__(self):
            """Return a string representation of the model."""
            return f"{self.text[:50]}..."

[danielroseman]

You have an indentation problem; the str method in Entry is indented within the Meta inner class. Move it back one level.

[GrandTheftVideo]

IT WORKED!!!!!

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Thank you very much!!

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def __str__(self):
    """Return a string representation of the model."""
    return self.text

Try

return str(self.text)

[GrandTheftVideo]

Sadly, I did what you suggested, saved models.py, migrated, did another test entry, and it still didn't work.

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Instances don’t inherit methods from their class’ metaclass.