Distinguishing parent model's children with Django inheritance

Question

Basically I have a Base class called \"Program\". I then have more specific program model types that use Program as a base class. For 99% of my needs, I don\'t care whether or n

Answer 1

A couple of weeks ago, someone on the django-developers mailing list introduced a very interesting extension to Django's ORM that makes QuerySets return subclassed objects instead of objects of the parent class. You can read all about it here:

http://bserve.webhop.org/wiki/django_polymorphic

I haven't tried it myself yet (but certainly will), but it seems to fit your use case.