ForeignKey automatic attribute does not depend on db_column

[anonymous]

Here is an example:

class Author(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=10)

class Book(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=10)
    author = models.ForeignKey(Author, db_column="author_key")

As from django documentation it will create a column in the database by appending '_id' to the field name, in our case it will be 'author_id'. It will also create an attribute author_id for the Book's instance. The database column name can be overwritten by defining db_column, this is what I did in my example. However, I expect that attribute will be changed from author_id to author_key but it does not happen.

[Aymeric Augustin]

As its name implies, db_column only affects the name of the column in the database, not the name of the field in Python code.

If you were misled by the docs, could you tell us which paragraph confused you?