from django.contrib.admin.util import NestedObjects from django.db import DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS from django.core import serializers # flatten function def flatten(xs): result = [] if isinstance(xs, (list, tuple)): for x in xs: result.extend(flatten(x)) else: result.append(xs) return result # parcours des objets concernés obj = Company.objects.get(pk=XX) collector = NestedObjects(using=DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS) collector.collect([obj]) datas = collector.nested() data = flatten(datas[1]) # serialisation with open("export_xx.xml", "w") as out: xml_serializer.serialize(data, stream=out) # deserialisation file = open("your_file.py", "r") data = file.read() for obj in serializers.deserialize("xml", data): obj.save()