Comments on: django: How to get model class from model name

By: Ian J Cottee

Ian J Cottee — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:52:34 +0000

Very useful – many thanks

By: Ubay Oramas

Ubay Oramas — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:21:01 +0000

Thank you both for the tips

By: Adil Saleem

Adil Saleem — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:46:11 +0000

Evgeny,

You are quite right and the suggested fix will definitely solve this performance issue…thanks

By: Evgeny Sizikov

Evgeny Sizikov — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:19:51 +0000

If you’re using the Django ContentTypes you’ll be getting a database hit during each model name resolution.

It would be better to use Django API for the task:
{{{
from django.db.models import get_model

# app_name should contain the model’s application name in lower case
# Example: app_name = “myfirstapp”
# Note: model name is case-insensitive
model = get_model(app_name, “MyCoolModel”)
}}}

By: Farhan Ahmad

Farhan Ahmad — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:33:45 +0000

Pretty cool. I love the content types framework, it has saved me time in the past.