Python/Django debugging: print model's containing data
To check fields on a model I usually use ?:
>>> Person?Type: ModelBaseBase Class: <class 'django.db.models.base.ModelBase'>String Form: <class 'foo.bar.models.Person'>Namespace: InteractiveFile: /home/zk/ve/django/foo/bar/models.pyDocstring: Person(id, first_name, last_name)You can also use help(). If you have an instance of the model you can look at __dict__:
>>> [x for x in Person().__dict__.keys() if not x.startswith('_')]<<< ['first_name', 'last_name', 'id']
If you have the model instance(s) you can simply call:
model_queryset.all().values()https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#django.db.models.query.QuerySet.values
For just the list of fields using the model class itself see Django: Get list of model fields?
or directly the documentation - for Django 1.10 there is a dedicated section on how to work with fields: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/ref/models/meta/#retrieving-all-field-instances-of-a-model
I think you just want to use __dict__ on an instance of a model. (It won't give methods like tab completion in ipython though). Also using __doc__ is quite helpful usually.
Also look into inspect http://docs.python.org/library/inspect.html