So I am upgrading a quite old Django application to one of the latest version of Django. And one of the problem I am facing is it uses a third party package, django-uuidfield , to store uuid value in one of the model. But now that library is not maintained and also Django has it’s own UUIDField so I …

Migrating a custom UUIDField to Django's UUIDField

sks444 April 9, 2020, 10:20pm 3

Thanks @adamchainz, that seems like a very cool trick to solve this problem

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