""" Tests to make sure that access to _meta on a model does not raise a protected-access warning, as it is part of the public API since Django 1.8 (see https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint-django/issues/66, and https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/models/meta/) """ # pylint: disable=missing-docstring from __future__ import print_function from django.db import models class ModelWhichLikesMeta(models.Model): ursuary = models.BooleanField(default=False) def do_a_thing(self): return self._meta.get_field("ursuary") if __name__ == "__main__": MODEL = ModelWhichLikesMeta() MODEL.save() print(MODEL._meta.get_field("ursuary")) print(MODEL.do_a_thing())