How to introspect django model fields?

Question

I am trying to obtain class information on a field inside a model, when I only know name of the field and name of the model (both plain strings). How is it possible?

Answer 1

django.db.models.loading.get_model() has been removed in django 1.9. You are supposed to use django.apps instead.

'get_field_by_name is an unofficial API that has been deprecated in Django 1.10. You may be able to replace it with 'get_field()'

>>> from django.apps import apps
>>> from polls.models import Question
>>> QuestionModel = apps.get_model('polls','Question')
>>> QuestionModel._meta.get_field('pub_date')
>>> QuestionModel._meta.get_fields()
(, , , ) 

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