Entries published on December 17, 2023

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Don’t use class methods on Django models

This is part of a series of posts I’m doing as a sort of Python/Django Advent calendar, offering a small tip or piece of information each day from the first Sunday of Advent through Christmas Eve. See the first post for an introduction.

Being methodical about Python

Python classes support three basic types of methods:

• Instance methods, which are what you get by default when writing a def statement inside a class body. These are called from an instance of the model, and Python will ensure that the instance is passed as the first positional argument (conventionally named self) …

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