Adding attributes into Django Model's Meta class

Question

I\'m writing a mixin which will allow my Models to be easily translated into a deep dict of values (kind of like .values(), but traversing relationships). The cleanest place to

Answer 1

I don't know about elegant, but one pragmatic way is:

import django.db.models.options as options

options.DEFAULT_NAMES = options.DEFAULT_NAMES + ('schema',)

Obviously, this would break if Django ever added a 'schema' attribute of its own. But hey, it's a thought...you could always pick an attribute name which is less likely to clash.