Creating recursive, symmetrical many-to-many relationships in Django

August 14, 2009

In Django, a recursive many-to-many relationship is a ManyToManyField that points to the same model in which it's defined ('self'). A symmetrical relationship is one in where, when a.contacts = [b], a is in b.contacts.

In changeset 8136, support for through models was added to the Django core ...