Django - enforce stripping whitespaces in CharField from the model

Question

I am trying to populate data into the following model from a csv and using update_or_create() in a loop to do that.

class TargetPlace(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100)

The csv may have some entries which have leading or trailing white spaces and I want to get rid of those.

I saw that CharField's in Django >=1.9 have a strip argument that takes care of this by default (since its True by default). I am using Django 1.10 but still seeing duplicate entries in the model (those with and without leading white spaces).

Does the strip argument not work that way?

Thanks for responding @Andrey. I got confused with the CharField in a Form (vs Model). See my answer below (and please let me know if you agree) — Anupam, Apr 04 '17 at 07:02
Possible duplicate of [(Django) Trim whitespaces from charField](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5043012/django-trim-whitespaces-from-charfield) — Håken Lid, Apr 04 '17 at 09:07

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '17 at 07:00

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I guess I got confused with the CharField in a Form vs CharField in a Model. CharField in a Model does not seem to have any such argument

answered Apr 04 '17 at 07:00

Anupam

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I was just looking at the source code and you are right, it doesn't have any such argument. – AKS Apr 04 '17 at 07:01
Also, [this](http://stackoverflow.com/a/38320995/15267030) answer throws some more light – Anupam Apr 04 '17 at 07:07

Django - enforce stripping whitespaces in CharField from the model

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