Django Unleashed

20.2 Understanding contenttypes and Generic Relations

By default, Django includes the contenttypes contributed app in every new project, as shown in Example 20.1.

Example 20.1: Project Code

suorganizer/settings.py in 97c4234a4a

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35   INSTALLED_APPS = (  .       ... 38       'django.contrib.contenttypes',  .       ... 48   )

The app keeps track of all of the types of content in our project, as shown in Example 20.2.

Example 20.2: Python Interpreter Code

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>>> from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType >>> ContentType.objects.all() [<ContentType: log entry>,  <ContentType: permission>,  <ContentType: group>,  <ContentType: user>,  <ContentType: content type>,  <ContentType: ...