Get all table names in a Django app

Question

How to get all table names in a Django app?

I use the following code but it doesn\'t get the tables created by ManyToManyField

from django.db.models          


        

Answer 1

The simplest answer, that still allows you to pick which app you want, is to modify your code with one extra argument "include_auto_created".

from django.db.models import get_app, get_models
app = get_app(app_name)
for model in get_models(app, include_auto_created=True):
    print model._meta.db_table

Obviously I got this by following celope's advice to read the syncdb source, so thanks for that - just documenting an exact answer that includes the app name as it was what I wanted and possibly others too in future.