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

In Python, a class attribute is always also an instance attribute:

class C(object):
    a = 1
    def show_a(self):
        print self.a # <- works

But in django it is further complicated by the fact that Model classes have special metaclasses, so be careful to your assumptions!