What's the best way to store Phone number in Django models

Question

I am storing a phone number in model like this:

phone_number = models.CharField(max_length=12)

User would enter a phone number

Answer 1

Others mentioned django-phonenumber-field. To get the display format how you want you need to set PHONENUMBER_DEFAULT_FORMAT setting to "E164", "INTERNATIONAL", "NATIONAL", or "RFC3966", however you want it displayed. See the GitHub source.