How can I introspect properties and model fields in Django?

Question

I am trying to get a list of all existing model fields and properties for a given object. Is there a clean way to instrospect an object so that I can get a dict of fields an

Answer 1

You should use the dir() function on your instance. Skipping whatever starts with '__' and than use getattr to get the value from your instance.

properties = [prop for prop in dir(SomeClass) if not prop.startswith("__")]

obj = {}
for prop in properties:
    obj[prop] = getattr(myinstance, prop)