python - Django circular model reference

Question

I'm starting to work on a small soccer league management website (mostly for learning purposes) and can't wrap my mind around a Django models relationship. For simplicity, let's say I have 2 types of objects - Player and Team. Naturally, a player belongs to one team so that's a ForeignKey(Team) in the Player model. So I go:

class Team(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField()
class Player(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField()
    team = models.ForeignKey(Team)

Then I want each team to have a captain which would be one of the players so that would be a ForeignKey(Player) in the Team model. But that would create a circular dependency. Granted my Django experience is limited, but it seems like a simple problem, though I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong conceptually.

Answer 1

as you can see in the docs, for exactly this reason it is possible to specify the foreign model as a string.

team = models.ForeignKey('Team')