>>> from django.utils import timezone
>>> p = Poll(question="What's new?", pub_date=timezone.now())
# Save the object into the database. You have to call save() explicitly.
>>> p.save()
# Now it has an ID. Note that this might say "1L" instead of "1", depending
# on which database you're using. That's no biggie; it just means your
# database backend prefers to return integers as Python long integer
# objects.
>>> p.id
1