Foreign keys in django admin list display

I was looking for a solution to the same problem and ran across this question… ended up solving it myself. The OP might not be interested anymore but this could still be useful to someone.

from functools import partial
from django.forms import MediaDefiningClass

class ModelAdminWithForeignKeyLinksMetaclass(MediaDefiningClass):

    def __getattr__(cls, name):

        def foreign_key_link(instance, field):
            target = getattr(instance, field)
            return u'<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/%s/%s/%d">%s</a>' % (
                target._meta.app_label, target._meta.module_name, target.id, unicode(target))

        if name[:8] == 'link_to_':
            method = partial(foreign_key_link, field=name[8:])
            method.__name__ = name[8:]
            method.allow_tags = True
            setattr(cls, name, method)
            return getattr(cls, name)
        raise AttributeError

class Book(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField()
    author = models.ForeignKey(Author)

class BookAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    __metaclass__ = ModelAdminWithForeignKeyLinksMetaclass

    list_display = ('title', 'link_to_author')

Replace ‘partial’ with Django’s ‘curry’ if not using python >= 2.5.