What does admin.autodiscover actually do?

Question

I've long been curious about what

admin.autodiscover()

actually do. The document didn't say much about it:

Above we used admin.autodiscover() to automatically load the INSTALLED_APPS admin.py modules.

and

There is really no need to use autodiscover when using your own AdminSite instance since you will likely be importing all the per-app admin.py modules in your myproject.admin module.

If I don't uncommnet

# admin.autodiscover()

what functionality I will lose?

And for what consideration should I use or not use autodiscover?

Answer 1

As u said: autodiscover() load all admin.py from the apps folders. So you have in the /admin/ all the models that you use (from your own app or not).

I recommend to use autodiscover() if you are going to use the admin app.

P.D. additionally some app have their on autodiscover with more functionalities.