django-inspect 0.2

Provides information about django models

Provides information about django models by a series of conveniences, such as its fields (local, foreign keys, many to many). Its only requirement is any version of django.

Here is a resume of what django-inspect offers:

all_fields

All model fields, including all relationships (back and forth).

fields

Only local fields, ie. any regular field and relationships (excluding backwards).

non_rel_fields

Basically the same thing as fields, but excluding all relationships.

fk_fields

Local foreign key fields.

backwards_fk_fields

Only backwards foreign key fields.

all_fk_fields

All foreign key fields (back and forth).

m2m_fields

Local many to many fields.

backwards_m2m_fields

Only backwards many to many fields.

all_m2m_fields

All many to many fields (back and forth).

Installation

django-inspect is available through pip:

pip install django-inspect

Usage

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

from django_inspect import Inspect

# passing an instance/object is also possible
inspect = Inspect(User)

inspect.fields
[u'id', 'password', 'last_login', 'is_superuser', 'username',
 'first_name', 'last_name', 'email', 'is_staff', 'is_active',
 'date_joined', 'groups', 'user_permissions']

inspect.non_rel_fields
[u'id', 'password', 'last_login', 'is_superuser', 'username',
 'first_name', 'last_name', 'email', 'is_staff', 'is_active',
 'date_joined']

inspect.m2m_fields
['groups', 'user_permissions']

inspect.backwards_fk_fields
['logentry_set']