下表显示了主要的区别:

+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Purpose                  | null=True        | blank = True         |
|--------------------------|------------------|----------------------|
| Field can be empty in DB | Do this          | Unaffected           |
|--------------------------|------------------|----------------------|
| ModelForm(required field)| Unaffected       | field not required   |
|--------------------------|------------------|----------------------|
| Form Validation          | Unaffected       | field not required   |
|--------------------------|------------------|----------------------|
| on_delete=SET_NULL       | Need this        | Unaffected           |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+

blank=True可以设置为任何模型字段，以控制在表单中输入值时该字段是否可以留空。这里，我们讨论的是输入数据。

null=True, if we set blank=True for a field, that model field does not receive any value, then the database or Django has to do something with that field when data is written into the database. For any kind of text content an empty string is stored in the database, so there is a value stored in the database. For other kinds of fields like date fields or numbers, we use the special data type "null". "null" can be used if a field potentially has no value, but by default, Django does not allow "null" values. That is why you need to explicitly set null=True.

假设你为任何非文本字段设置了blank=True，但你没有指定“null=True”，Django将不知道存储什么，它会抛出一个错误。

理解Django模型字段定义中的选项(至少)有两个目的是至关重要的:定义数据库表，定义模型表单的默认格式和验证。(我说“默认”是因为可以通过提供自定义表单来覆盖这些值。)一些选项会影响数据库，一些选项会影响表单，还有一些会同时影响两者。

说到null和blank，其他答案已经说明，前者影响数据库表定义，后者影响模型验证。我认为，通过查看所有四种可能配置的用例，可以更清楚地区分它们:

null=False, blank=False: This is the default configuration and means that the value is required in all circumstances. null=True, blank=True: This means that the field is optional in all circumstances. As noted below, though, this is not the recommended way to make string-based fields optional. null=False, blank=True: This means that the form doesn't require a value but the database does. There are a number of use cases for this: The most common use is for optional string-based fields. As noted in the documentation, the Django idiom is to use the empty string to indicate a missing value. If NULL was also allowed you would end up with two different ways to indicate a missing value. (If the field is also unique, though, you'll have to use null=True to prevent multiple empty strings from failing the uniqueness check.) Another common situation is that you want to calculate one field automatically based on the value of another (in your save() method, say). You don't want the user to provide the value in a form (hence blank=True), but you do want the database to enforce that a value is always provided (null=False). Another use is when you want to indicate that a ManyToManyField is optional. Because this field is implemented as a separate table rather than a database column, null is meaningless. The value of blank will still affect forms, though, controlling whether or not validation will succeed when there are no relations. null=True, blank=False: This means that the form requires a value but the database doesn't. This may be the most infrequently used configuration, but there are some use cases for it: It's perfectly reasonable to require your users to always include a value even if it's not actually required by your business logic. After all, forms are only one way of adding and editing data. You may have code that is generating data that doesn't need the same stringent validation you want to require of a human editor. Another use case that I've seen is when you have a ForeignKey for which you don't wish to allow cascade deletion. That is, in normal use the relation should always be there (blank=False), but if the thing it points to happens to be deleted, you don't want this object to be deleted too. In that case you can use null=True and on_delete=models.SET_NULL to implement a simple kind of soft deletion.

默认值为“null”和“blank”为“False”。

Null:与数据库相关。定义给定的数据库列是否接受空值。

Blank:这是验证相关的。它将在表单验证期间调用form.is_valid()时使用。

也就是说，有一个null=True和blank=False的字段是完全没问题的。意思是在数据库级别上，该字段可以为NULL，但在应用程序级别上，它是必需的字段。

现在，大多数开发人员都犯了错误:为基于字符串的字段(如CharField和TextField)定义null=True。避免这样做。否则，你最终会有两个可能的“无数据”值，即:None和一个空字符串。对于“无数据”有两个可能的值是多余的。Django的约定是使用空字符串，而不是NULL。

简单的回答是:Null是数据库表，Blank是Django表单。

null=True在数据库中的列上设置null(而不是NOT null)。Django字段类型(如DateTimeField或ForeignKey)的空白值将在DB中存储为NULL。

Blank确定表单中是否需要该字段。这包括管理表单和自定义表单。如果blank=True，则该字段将不是必需的，而如果为False，则该字段不能为空。

这两者的组合非常常见，因为通常情况下，如果您要允许表单中的字段为空，您还需要数据库允许该字段为NULL值。例外是CharFields和TextFields，它们在Django中永远不会被保存为NULL。空白值作为空字符串存储在DB中(")。

举几个例子:

models.DateTimeField(blank=True) # raises IntegrityError if blank

models.DateTimeField(null=True) # NULL allowed, but must be filled out in a form

显然，使用这两个选项在逻辑上没有意义(尽管如果您希望一个字段在表单中始终是必需的，则可能存在null=True, blank=False的用例，当通过shell之类的东西处理对象时是可选的)。

models.CharField(blank=True) # No problem, blank is stored as ''

models.CharField(null=True) # NULL allowed, but will never be set as NULL

CHAR和TEXT类型永远不会被Django保存为NULL，所以NULL =True是不必要的。但是，您可以手动将其中一个字段设置为None以强制将其设置为NULL。如果你有一个场景，在那里可能是必要的，你仍然应该包括null=True。