def create_tags(): Tag.objects.all().delete() for pk, fields in tags.iteritems(): tname = remove_accents(hashtagify(fields['name'])) print "TAG", tname if Tag.objects.filter(tag__iexact=tname).count() == 0: t = Tag() t.tag = tname t.title = fields['name'].strip() t.description = fields['description'] t.client_domain = datea t.save()