Model _meta API

[Matthew Pava]

Since the standardization of the Model _meta API and making it public, I was wondering if Django plans on removing the underscore in _meta in the future?  Just curious.

[James Bennett]

I'd be against it.

At work I deal with one codebase that's Django and one that's Flask/SQLAlchemy, so I've run into the issue of not being able to name a column 'metadata' in a SQLAlchemy ORM model (that name is reserved for SQLAlchemy's internal use, but not underscore-prefixed), and been frustrated by it. I don't know offhand if anyone would ever want to use 'meta' as a field name in a Django model, but making it impossible when Python provides a standard convention for indicating something is internal API seems like a bad idea.

[Matthew Pava]

Thank you so much for that clarification!