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7852	Cross-application model inheritence broken after newforms-admin merge	jbalonso	nobody	"I have an application that needs to register models for the admin interface in one app that also has a base class for models in two other apps.  After the newforms-admin merge, it is impossible to import the base class into another app, since it needs to be referenced by an app.model name string instead of the class reference itself.

My recommendation is to create a models.base_class() function that accepts an app.model string and returns a dynamic class that can be derived.  If such a beast already exists, it needs to be documented.

To clarify...

Old:

{{{
from django.db import models
from remote.models import Foo

class Bar(Foo):
    # etc.
}}}

Proposed:

{{{
from django.db import models

class Bar(models.base_class('remote.Bar')):
    # etc.
}}}"		closed	Database layer (models, ORM)	dev		invalid	model inheritance	jalonso@…	Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0