How to get the app a Django model is from?

Question

I have a model with a generic relation:

TrackedItem --- genericrelation ---> any model

I would like to be able to generically get, from

Answer 1

You can get both app_label and model from your object using the built-in ContentType class:

from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

user_obj = User.objects.create()
obj_content_type = ContentType.objects.get_for_model(user_obj)

print(obj_content_type.app_label)
# u'auth'
print(obj_content_type.model)
# u'user'

This is better approach respect of using the _meta properties that are defined for private purposes.