Use strings, not constants in Django migrations

PublishedOctober 2, 2023

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React, Django and SQL developer at Forma.ai

# migrations/0001_my_migration.py
from my_file import MY_CONSTANT
MyModel.objects.get_or_create(name=MY_CONSTANT)

# migrations/0001_my_migration.py
MyModel.objects.get_or_create(name="my-constant")

Why

value of LOCALIZATION.BUNDLE__SYNC could change
After the change, the migration behaves differently than when it was first written
1. might even fail 😱
2. (we all know how terrifying failing migrations are 😭)

#til #django #migrations

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