django: use a string to select a specifc model

Question

What I want to do be able to use the name of a model as an input to a function so the objects methods can be performed against the specified model. For example:

Answer 1

You can use models.get_model() function:

>>> model_class = models.get_model('App', 'Model1')
>>> model_class.objects.all()
>>> [...]

That's if you need to use a string. But you can pass classes around in python. Here's an example:

>>> from app.models import Model1
>>> select_all_from_model(Model1)
>>> [...]