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Django Model method that uses data from the model

I want to generate unique codes (e.g. “DXGH”) and save it as a field in one of my models. The problem I have is that I do not know how to check against previously generated codes whenever a new object is created. Currently my models.py looks something like this: Ideally I would set the default val…

Method called when an object is deleted

I’m writing a small application in Python 3 where objects (players) hold sets of connected objects of the same type (other players) together with data that belong to the pair of objects (the result of a played game). From time to time it is necessary to delete objects (in my example when they drop out o…

creating random values but within another column restraints [python]

I have this type of dataset: I want to have: As you can see, if I just went and created random values for the Gender column, I will eventually have a problem: I might assign different gender names to the same person ID. If I had unique IDs, then, that wouldn’t have been a problem. But I want to create