In marshmallow you can have a schema field which can be filled with a method output. Let's see with an example:

class AuthorSchema(Schema):
    id = fields.Int(dump_only=True)
    first = fields.Str()
    last = fields.Str()
    formatted_name = fields.Method("format_name", dump_only=True)

    def format_name(self, author):
        return "{}, {}".format(author.last, author.first)

As you see formatted_name field is filled by a method called format_name. Examples are endless, you can calculate average score based on the given scores for instance.

#python #marshmallow #fields #fields_method