Do Django models have a data dict containing all the current values?

Question

Something like

my_model.data_dict['my_field']

Which would give you the current value for that field? Need something like that to interface with my other code.

Answer 1

It's lil tricky but you can do it like this:

def model2dict(obj):
   return dict([(field, getattr(obj, field)) for field in obj._meta.get_all_field_names()])

So you can access values:

model2dict(my_model)['my_field']