from __future__ import unicode_literals import uuid from django.db import migrations def operation_convert_uuid_to_hex(apps, schema_editor): Document = apps.get_model(app_label='documents', model_name='Document') for document in Document.objects.using(schema_editor.connection.alias).all(): document.uuid = uuid.UUID(document.uuid).hex document.save() class Migration(migrations.Migration): dependencies = [ ('documents', '0030_auto_20160309_1837'), ] operations = [ migrations.RunPython(code=operation_convert_uuid_to_hex), ]