另一个迟来的答案，但如果你只是想看看一个新文件是否已经上传到一个文件字段，试试这个:(改编自Christopher Adams对链接http://zmsmith.com/2010/05/django-check-if-a-field-has-changed/的评论在zach的评论这里)

更新链接:https://web.archive.org/web/20130101010327/http://zmsmith.com:80/2010/05/django-check-if-a-field-has-changed/

def save(self, *args, **kw):
    from django.core.files.uploadedfile import UploadedFile
    if hasattr(self.image, 'file') and isinstance(self.image.file, UploadedFile) :
        # Handle FileFields as special cases, because the uploaded filename could be
        # the same as the filename that's already there even though there may
        # be different file contents.

        # if a file was just uploaded, the storage model with be UploadedFile
        # Do new file stuff here
        pass

从Django 1.8开始，就有了from_db方法，Serge提到过。事实上，Django文档中包含了这样一个特定的用例:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/instances/#customizing-model-loading

下面是一个示例，展示如何记录从数据库加载的字段的初始值

我对@iperelivskiy的解决方案的看法是:在大规模的情况下，为每个__init__创建_initial字典是昂贵的，而且大多数时候是不必要的。我稍微改变了mixin，这样它只在你显式地告诉它这样做(通过调用instance.track_changes)时才记录更改:

from typing import KeysView, Optional
from django.forms import model_to_dict

class TrackChangesMixin:
    _snapshot: Optional[dict] = None

    def track_changes(self):
        self._snapshot = self.as_dict

    @property
    def diff(self) -> dict:
        if self._snapshot is None:
            raise ValueError("track_changes wasn't called, can't determine diff.")
        d1 = self._snapshot
        d2 = self.as_dict
        diffs = [(k, (v, d2[k])) for k, v in d1.items() if str(v) != str(d2[k])]
        return dict(diffs)

    @property
    def has_changed(self) -> bool:
        return bool(self.diff)

    @property
    def changed_fields(self) -> KeysView:
        return self.diff.keys()

    @property
    def as_dict(self) -> dict:
        return model_to_dict(self, fields=[field.name for field in self._meta.fields])

修改@ivanperelivskiy的回答:

@property
def _dict(self):
    ret = {}
    for field in self._meta.get_fields():
        if isinstance(field, ForeignObjectRel):
            # foreign objects might not have corresponding objects in the database.
            if hasattr(self, field.get_accessor_name()):
                ret[field.get_accessor_name()] = getattr(self, field.get_accessor_name())
            else:
                ret[field.get_accessor_name()] = None
        else:
            ret[field.attname] = getattr(self, field.attname)
    return ret

这里使用了django 1.10的公共方法get_fields。这使得代码更经得起未来的考验，但更重要的是还包括了外键和edititable =False的字段。

作为参考，这里是.fields的实现

@cached_property
def fields(self):
    """
    Returns a list of all forward fields on the model and its parents,
    excluding ManyToManyFields.

    Private API intended only to be used by Django itself; get_fields()
    combined with filtering of field properties is the public API for
    obtaining this field list.
    """
    # For legacy reasons, the fields property should only contain forward
    # fields that are not private or with a m2m cardinality. Therefore we
    # pass these three filters as filters to the generator.
    # The third lambda is a longwinded way of checking f.related_model - we don't
    # use that property directly because related_model is a cached property,
    # and all the models may not have been loaded yet; we don't want to cache
    # the string reference to the related_model.
    def is_not_an_m2m_field(f):
        return not (f.is_relation and f.many_to_many)

    def is_not_a_generic_relation(f):
        return not (f.is_relation and f.one_to_many)

    def is_not_a_generic_foreign_key(f):
        return not (
            f.is_relation and f.many_to_one and not (hasattr(f.remote_field, 'model') and f.remote_field.model)
        )

    return make_immutable_fields_list(
        "fields",
        (f for f in self._get_fields(reverse=False)
         if is_not_an_m2m_field(f) and is_not_a_generic_relation(f) and is_not_a_generic_foreign_key(f))
    )

注意，字段更改跟踪在django-model-utils中是可用的。

https://django-model-utils.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

这在Django 1.8中是适用的

def clean(self):
    if self.cleaned_data['name'] != self.initial['name']:
        # Do something