Django: Model, Object, QuerySet

Model: A model is the single, definitive source of information about your data. It contains the essential fields and behaviors of the data you’re storing. Generally, each model maps to a single database table.

The basics:
• Each model is a Python class that subclasses django.db.models.Model.
• Each attribute of the model represents a database field.
• With all of this, Django gives you an automatically-generated database-access API; see Making queries.

Object: To represent database-table data in Python objects, Django uses an intuitive system: A model class represents a database table, and an instance of that class represents a particular record in the database table.

To create an object, instantiate it using keyword arguments to the model class, then call save() to save it to the database.

Assuming models live in a file mysite/blog/models.py, here’s an example:

from blog.models import Blog
b = Blog(name=‘Beatles Blog’, tagline=‘All the latest Beatles news.’)
b.save()

This performs an INSERT SQL statement behind the scenes. Django doesn’t hit the database until you explicitly call save().
The save() method has no return value.

QuerySet: A QuerySet represents a collection of objects from your database. It can have zero, one or many filters. Filters narrow down the query results based on the given parameters.