[Fixed]-How to properly define through-model in Django

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You should use string of model instead of model class itself to refer to the foreign key. It’s specially true when you have definition sequence problem. Quoting from django doc foreign key section:

If you need to create a relationship on a model that has not yet been
defined, you can use the name of the model, rather than the model
object itself:

from django.db import models

class Car(models.Model):
    manufacturer = models.ForeignKey(
        'Manufacturer',
        on_delete=models.CASCADE,
    )
    # ...

class Manufacturer(models.Model):
    # ...
    pass
👤Shang Wang

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You’ll need to specify the TranslatorLanguage model as a string, since it is defined later in models.py, like this:

languages = models.ManyToManyField(Language, through='TranslatorLanguage')
👤koniiiik

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