[SOLVED] What's the difference between django

What's the difference between django_extension.db and django.db？

I want to generate UUID for my models, and officially, what I did is exactly as what the official doc demonstrates.

import uuid
from django.db import models

class MyUUIDModel(models.Model):
    id = models.UUIDField(primary_key=True, default=uuid.uuid4, editable=False)

However, I also find django_extension to do similiar job for me. I don't know what's the difference between, but I do want to unify my code for better production purpose. Any help, thanks.

Solution

Django did not include a UUIDField until version 1.8, which is why it was created as an "extension" by the Django Extensions maintainers. Now that Django includes UUIDField natively the Django Extensions maintainers are sunsetting their version, but are continuing to maintain their UUIDField for people using Django < 1.8 until Django 1.7 is no longer supported per the docs.

If you are using Django >= 1.8 you should be using django.db.models.UUIDField.