How can you create a non-empty CharField in Django?

Question

I have a simple model which looks like this:

class Group(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length = 100, blank=False)

I would

Answer 1

another option that doesn't require you to manually call clean is to use this:

name = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=False, default=None)

• blank will prevent an empty string to be provided in your model
• default=None will set name to None when using something like group = Group(), thus raising an exception when calling save