[Fixed]-Django signals, how to use "instance"

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Actually, Django’s documentation about signals is very clear and does contain examples.

In your case, the post_save signals sends the following arguments: sender (the model class), instance (the instance of class sender), created, raw, and using. If you need to access instance, you can access it using kwargs['instance'] in your example or, better, change your callback function to accept the argument:

@receiver(post_save, sender=Project)
def unzip_and_process(sender, instance, created, raw, using, **kwargs):
    # Now *instance* is the instance you want
    # ...
👤Ferdinand Beyer

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This worked for me when connecting Django Signals:

Here is the models.py:

class MyModel(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100)

And the Signal that access it post_save:

@receiver(post_save, sender=MyModel)
def print_name(sender, instance, **kwargs):
    print '%s' % instance.name
👤Aaron Lelevier

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