Is it safe to access ._meta directly in your django app?
I use _meta in several projects where I want to have generic access to information that's otherwise not provided by the api.  I think you're probably okay most of the time as Django is pretty stable.  It's probably a good idea to be covering your usage of _meta in your unit tests.
Django uses Meta class for lots of additional object information. However, they store this information in an object '_meta' which by naming convention is private.
All over the django admin (and other places) I see stuff like opts = model._meta and then they use the various options like app_label and verbose_name.
Can I be confident accessing ._meta and be sure that it will not change in the future, or am I better off creating one 'accessor' mixin or something that accesses the ._meta in one spot, so if it ever does change I only have to update one thing?