Check out this cool django command, which generates data for your models. I found it a couple weeks ago, and made a bunch of updates to it. It generates data depending on the type of model. Generally it’s a bunch of lipsum, or date objects. But it also correctly populates foreign keys and many to many fields. With a bunch of options to control the data that’s generated, or just write your own method and use that.

It wasn’t my project originally so it’s on google code for the original author, which I push to that repo every once and a while. But I always keep the latest in my git repo.