""" Relating an object to itself, many-to-one To define a many-to-one relationship between a model and itself, use ``ForeignKey('self', ...)``. In this example, a ``Category`` is related to itself. That is, each ``Category`` has a parent ``Category``. Set ``related_name`` to designate what the reverse relationship is called. """ from django.db import models from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible @python_2_unicode_compatible class Category(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=20) parent = models.ForeignKey('self', models.SET_NULL, blank=True, null=True, related_name='child_set') def __str__(self): return self.name @python_2_unicode_compatible class Person(models.Model): full_name = models.CharField(max_length=20) mother = models.ForeignKey('self', models.SET_NULL, null=True, related_name='mothers_child_set') father = models.ForeignKey('self', models.SET_NULL, null=True, related_name='fathers_child_set') def __str__(self): return self.full_name