[Python] Provide short_description for model field in Django Admin

Sometimes I want to display many boolean fields in the list_display view in Django Admin. Unfortunately these fields come with a long verbose_name which gives very ugly and large columns.

I know that you can provide a short_description attribute to callables for providing column names in the list_display view in Django Admin. So I reverted to doing this:

class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
list_display = ['id', 'field1', 'field2', 'short_boolfield3', 'short_boolfield4']

def short_boolfield3(self, obj):
return obj.boolfield3
short_boolfield3.short_description = 'fld3'
short_boolfield3.boolean = True

def short_boolfield4(self, obj):
return obj.boolfield4
short_boolfield4.short_description = 'fld4'
short_boolfield4.boolean = True


Which works, but is definitely against DRY, especially when you have many boolean fields.

Is there a short_description equivalent for Model fields?

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