Question

I need to retrive table name and model’s contenttype id for all model of a specific app. I can use this code to get a model’s table name, but not its contenttype id:

from django.db.models import get_app, get_models
app = get_app("my_app_name")
for model in get_models(app, include_auto_created=True):
    print model._meta.db_table

However I need to directly get this information from database. Something like:

Select id, model from django_content_type where app_label='my_app_name'

In this case, I get id but not table name. Where to get table name in 2nd case?

Answer 1

To get the pk of the contenttype of a model

from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
ContentType.objects.get_for_model(model).pk

To run standalone Django script, refs posts or simply (which normally works)

DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE='project.settings' python script.py