[Fixed]-Django app structutre and circular reference

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The point here is that Django automatically creates reverse lookup when you create a ForeignKey or ManytoManyField. Assuming your models are as follows:

BlogPost Model 

from django.db import models

class BlogPost(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(_('title'), max_length=200)
    slug = models.SlugField(_('slug'), unique_for_date='publish')
    author = models.ForeignKey(User, blank=True, null=True)
    body = models.TextField(_('body'), )
    publish = models.DateTimeField(_('publish'), default=datetime.datetime.now)
    created = models.DateTimeField(_('created'), auto_now_add=True)

Tag Model

from django.db import models    
from Blog.models import BlogPost

class Tag(models.Model):
    Post = models.ForeignKey(BlogPost,related_name="tags")

Now, assuming you are generating the Tags of a post in a view, you can basically get all the tags of a post by just calling blogpost.tags_set where blogpost is a model instance of BlogPost.

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