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I have several models like ”Player”, ”Member” and ”User” which have similar attributes like ”name”, ”email”, ”address”, etc. Being an object-oriented developer, I am inclined to put all the common attributes and properties under a base model like ”BaseUser” and have the other models subclass this base model. However, Django 0.96 is not supporting model inheritance yet, so I have decided to poke into the code to see if I can implement my own workaround.

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from django.db import models

class BaseUser:

   _meta = models.options.Options(None)

   name = models.CharField('name', maxlength = 255, db_index = True)

   name.set_attributes_from_name('name')

   _meta.add_field(name)

   email = models.CharField('name', maxlength = 255)

   email.set_attributes_from_name('email')

   _meta.add_field(email)

class Player(BaseUser, models.Model):  pass

class Member(BaseUser, models.Model):

   register_date = models.DateTimeField('Register')

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After you run python manage.py syncdb, two tables of Player and Member will be created.

1. Player table will have name and email columns while Member table will have an additional register_date column.
2. Note that the two tables are independent from each other.

Note that this workaround does not attempt to solve problems associated with model inheritance, i.e. you can’t execute a count() on the base model and expect it to return the total row count of itself plus the child models.

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