Question

If a django model is made abstract, like below, is there a way to inspect the class to determine that it is abstract?

class MyModel(models.Model):
  class Meta:
    abstract = True

I would expect that I could examine MyModel.Meta.abstract, but according to Django docs:

Django does make one adjustment to the Meta class of an abstract base class: before installing the Meta attribute, it sets abstract=False. This means that children of abstract base classes don’t automatically become abstract classes themselves.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

You can instantiate MyModel and then check ._meta.abstract.

So in code:

m = MyModel()
print m._meta.abstract