Inheriting Permissions from Abstract Class

[Alec Koumjian]

I have some custom permissions that I would like to give to about half a dozen different classes. If I did them individually they might look like this:

MyModel(models.Model):

...

    Meta:

        permissions = (('view_mymodel', 'View Mymodel'),)

        ...

That's all good and well, but following a DRY principle, I thought I would simply create an abstract class to inherit from. I thought it would look like this:

MyAbstractModel(models.Model):

...

    Meta:

        permissions = (('view_%s' % self.__class__, 'View %s' % self.__class__))

        ...

MyModel(MyAbstractModel):

...

The problem is that, as far as I can tell, there is no way to access the class name from inside the Meta class. I can't find a way to make the above work. I'm very much looking for suggestions.

[Alec Koumjian]

Just wanted to ping this as it just got approved.