Django ManyToManyField ordering using through

Question

Here is a snippet of how my models are setup:

class Profile(models.Model):     
    name = models.CharField(max_length=32)

    accout = models.ManyToManyFie         


        

Answer 1

I have this on a number of my models, but in my opinion (and unlike all the other answers) you shouldn't need to specify the order_by again because, well, it's already specified in the through model. Specifying it again breaks the DRY (don't repeat yourself) principle.

I would use:

qs = profile.profileaccounts_set.all()

This gives the set of ProfileAccounts associated with a profile using your configured ordering. Then:

for pa in qs:
    print(pa.account.name)

For bonus points, you can also speed up the overall process by using select_related in the query.