Django models & Python class attributes

Question

The tutorial on the django website shows this code for the models:

from django.db import models

class Poll(models.Model):
    question = models.CharField(ma         


        

Answer 1

Have a look at the Model class under django/db/models.py. There the class attributes are turned to instance attributes via something like

setattr(self, field.attname, val)

One might recommend the whole file (ModelBase and Model class) as an excellent hands-on example on metaclasses.