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Python Programming Blueprints
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Python Programming Blueprints

by Daniel Furtado, Marcus Pennington
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
456 pages
9h 56m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating the model's managers

To make our application more readable and not clutter the endpoints with a lot of business logic, we are going to create managers for our model classes. If you followed the previous chapter, you should be very familiar with this. In a nutshell, managers are an interface that provide query operations to Django models.

By default, Django adds a manager to every model; it is stored on a property named objects. The default manager that Django adds to the models is sometimes sufficient and there's no need to create a custom manager, but it is a good practice to keep all database-related code within the model. This will make our code more consistent, readable, and easier to test and maintain.

In our case, the only ...

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