Yeah you're right about the development tools and being quicker for 
refactoring and alike. I believe typos will be caught when running 
`makemigrations` at least as it will complain about not being about to find 
the model.


On Thursday, 1 September 2016 13:39:31 UTC+1, Javier Guerra wrote:
>
> On 1 September 2016 at 11:55, James Beith <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > By using a model name there are fewer imports at the top of the module 
> and 
> > fewer occurrences of circular import dependencies between Django 
> > applications. What are the disadvantages to using a model name and why 
> not 
> > always use them? 
>
>
> totally a wrong reason, but i like using classes instead of names 
> because that way it feels more "programming" and less "configuration". 
>
> a _possible_ (but not really convincing) reason would be that it makes 
> it easier for tools (syntax highlight, autocompleting editors, static 
> analyzers...) to detect typos. 
>
> -- 
> Javier 
>

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