Null纯粹与数据库相关，而blank与验证相关。如果一个字段为blank=True, Django管理站点的验证将允许输入一个空值。如果一个字段有blank=False，该字段将是必需的

正如Django Model Field reference中所说:Link

Field options The following arguments are available to all field types. All are optional. null Field.null If True, Django will store empty values as NULL in the database. Default is False. Avoid using null on string-based fields such as CharField and TextField because empty string values will always be stored as empty strings, not as NULL. If a string-based field has null=True, that means it has two possible values for "no data": NULL, and the empty string. In most cases, it’s redundant to have two possible values for "no data"; the Django convention is to use the empty string, not NULL. For both string-based and non-string-based fields, you will also need to set blank=True if you wish to permit empty values in forms, as the null parameter only affects database storage (see blank). Note When using the Oracle database backend, the value NULL will be stored to denote the empty string regardless of this attribute blank Field.blank If True, the field is allowed to be blank. Default is False. Note that this is different than null. null is purely database-related, whereas blank is validation-related. If a field has blank=True, form validation will allow entry of an empty value. If a field has blank=False, the field will be required.

简单地说，

Blank和null不同。

Null是纯粹与数据库相关的，而blank是与验证相关的(表单要求)。

如果null=True, Django将在数据库中存储空值为null。如果字段有blank=True，表单验证将允许输入空值。如果一个字段有blank=False，该字段将是必需的。

这就是ORM在Django 1.8中映射空白和空字段的方法

class Test(models.Model):
    charNull        = models.CharField(max_length=10, null=True)
    charBlank       = models.CharField(max_length=10, blank=True)
    charNullBlank   = models.CharField(max_length=10, null=True, blank=True)

    intNull         = models.IntegerField(null=True)
    intBlank        = models.IntegerField(blank=True)
    intNullBlank    = models.IntegerField(null=True, blank=True)

    dateNull        = models.DateTimeField(null=True)
    dateBlank       = models.DateTimeField(blank=True)
    dateNullBlank   = models.DateTimeField(null=True, blank=True)        

为PostgreSQL 9.4创建的数据库字段是:

CREATE TABLE Test (
  id              serial                    NOT NULL,

  "charNull"      character varying(10),
  "charBlank"     character varying(10)     NOT NULL,
  "charNullBlank" character varying(10),

  "intNull"       integer,
  "intBlank"      integer                   NOT NULL,
  "intNullBlank"  integer,

  "dateNull"      timestamp with time zone,
  "dateBlank"     timestamp with time zone  NOT NULL,
  "dateNullBlank" timestamp with time zone,
  CONSTRAINT Test_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id)
)

为MySQL 5.6创建的数据库字段是:

CREATE TABLE Test (
     `id`            INT(11)     NOT  NULL    AUTO_INCREMENT,

     `charNull`      VARCHAR(10) NULL DEFAULT NULL,
     `charBlank`     VARCHAR(10) NOT  NULL,
     `charNullBlank` VARCHAR(10) NULL DEFAULT NULL,

     `intNull`       INT(11)     NULL DEFAULT NULL,
     `intBlank`      INT(11)     NOT  NULL,
     `intNullBlank`  INT(11)     NULL DEFAULT NULL,

     `dateNull`      DATETIME    NULL DEFAULT NULL,
     `dateBlank`     DATETIME    NOT  NULL,
     `dateNullBlank` DATETIME    NULL DEFAULT NULL
)

你可能有你的答案，但直到今天，很难判断是否把null=True或空白=True或两者都放在一个字段。我个人认为为开发者提供这么多选择是非常无用和令人困惑的。让它按自己的意愿处理空值或空格。

下面是来自Two Scoops of Django的表格:

当我们在Django管理中保存任何东西时，会发生两步验证，在Django级别和数据库级别。我们不能在数字字段中保存文本。

数据库的数据类型是NULL，什么都不是。当Django在数据库中创建列时，它指定它们不能为空。如果你试图保存NULL，你会得到数据库错误。

同样在Django- admin级别，默认情况下所有字段都是必须的，你不能保存空白字段，Django会给你一个错误。

所以，如果你想保存空白字段，你需要在Django和数据库级别上允许它。 blank=True -在管理面板中允许空字段 null=True -将允许将null保存到数据库列。