Question

I’ve been reading up on Dynamic Models and have been trying to create one. I’m creating the model from scratch without the help of any helper functions. The docs point to a helper function called create_model which I can’t seem to find in Django 1.3. Any ideas, why? Due to this missing helper function, I’m creating the pseudo-model like this:

Person = type('Person', (models.Model,), {
    'first_name': models.CharField(max_length=255),
    'last_name': models.CharField(max_length=255),
    '__module__' : 'modules.testmodule'
})

This initialised a psuedo-model object and I would like to pass this pseudo Model object to one of my Forms to initialize it.

How can I set the values for the Model fields when initialising it so that the Form can inititialise it’s own fields from the Model instance.

Thanks.

Answer 1

This did it:

 setattr(Person, 'first_name', 'John')