When to programmatically create custom Django permissions?

django, permissions, python

Solution

Usually it is enough to just add the needed permissions to the corresponding model class using the `permissions` meta attribute.

This is from the official documentation:

class Task(models.Model):
    ...
    class Meta:
        permissions = (
            ("view_task", "Can see available tasks"),
            ("change_task_status", "Can change the status of tasks"),
            ("close_task", "Can remove a task by setting its status as closed"),
        )

Problem

The permission/authentication documentation for Django 1.4 provides the following snippet for creating custom permissions programmatically: Edit: (I would like to employ this for permissions that are not necessarily linked to a specific model class, but more general permissions that span multiple types.) ``` from django.contrib.auth.models import Group, Permission from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType content_type = ContentType.objects.get(app_label='myapp', model='BlogPost') permission = Permission.objects.create(codename='can_publish', name='Can Publish Posts', content_type=content_type) ``` Source My question is where this code should be placed. Obviously these should only be created once, but I don't want to have to do it in the shell. It seems like this should be stored in a file somewhere. (For documentation sake.)

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