[Fixed]-How to get a model object using model name string in Django

As of Django 1.7 the django.db.models.loading is deprecated (to be removed in 1.9) in favor of the the new application loading system. The 1.7 docs give us the following instead:

$ python manage.py shell
Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar  5 2014, 10:59:47)
>>> from django.apps import apps
>>> User = apps.get_model(app_label='auth', model_name='User')
>>> print User
<class 'django.contrib.auth.models.User'>
>>>

if you pass in ‘app_label.model_name’ you could use contenttypes e.g.

from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType

model_type = ContentType.objects.get(app_label=app_label, model=model_name)
objects = model_type.model_class().objects.all()

The full answer for Django 1.5 is:

from django.db.models.loading import AppCache

app_cache = AppCache()
model_class = app_cache.get_model(*'myapp.MyModel'.split('.',1))