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The Django post_save() signal can be implemented by following these steps:

Import the signals module from Django:

from django.db.models.signals import post_save

Import the model you want to create the signal for:

from myapp.models import MyModel

Define a function that will handle the post-save signal:

def my_signal_receiver(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
    if created:
        print("A new object has been created:", instance)
    else:
        print("An object has been updated:", instance)

In this example, the function takes four arguments:

sender: The class of the model that sent the signal (in this case, MyModel).
instance: The instance of the model that was saved.
created: A boolean that indicates whether the instance was created or updated.

Connect the function to the post_save signal for the MyModel model:

post_save.connect(my_signal_receiver, sender=MyModel)

This connects the function mysignalreceiver to the post_save signal for the MyModel model. Whenever a MyModel instance is saved or updated, the function will be called.

Note: You can connect multiple functions to the post_save signal for the same model.