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Django Inspect: A generic introspection API for Django models

2010 February 14

Django itself has shipped with a "semi-private" introspection API, _meta, for a long time. I have created a drop-dead simple wrapper on top of this.

The value of introspection keeps growing on me as I realize how it makes making truly reusable applications possible. It is an interesting intersection of ...

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