The following is a handy command that lets us explore the ORM and create new records

$ python manage.py shell

QuerySet

>>> from courses.models import Course
>>> Course.objects.all()
[]

This looks like a list, but it’s not!
It’s actually an empty QuerySet.

>>>  type(Course.objects.all())
<class 'django.db.models.query.QuerySet'>

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Creating the Instance

Method 1: Assigning Attributes

Let’s create an instance

>>> c = Course()
>>> c.title = "Python Basics"
>>> c.description = "Learn the basics of Python"
>>> c.save()
>>> Course.objects.all()
[<Course: Couese object>]

Method 2: Object Instantiation

>>> Course(title="Python Collections", description="Learn about list, dict, and tuple").save()
>>> Course.objects.all()
[<Course: Couese object>, <Course: Couese object>]

Method 3: Object Instantiation

This is the best way to do it!

>>> Course.objects.create(title="Object-Oriented Python", description="Learn about Python's classes")
<Course: Couese object>

create
Returns an object after instance creation.

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Enhance Query Presentation

models.py

from django.db import models

class Course(models.Model):
  created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
  title = models.CharField(max_length=255)
  description = models.TextField()

  def __str__(self):
    return self.title

>>> Course.objects.all()
[<Course: Python Basics>, <Course: Python Collections>, <Course: Object-Oriented Python>]