[Python] Django Bi-directional ManyToMany - How to prevent table creation on second model?

I have two models, each has a shared ManyToMany, using the db_table field. But how do I prevent syncdb from attempting to create the shared table, for the second model?

class Model1(models.Model):
othermodels = ManyToManyField('Model2', db_table='model1_model2', related_name='model1_model2')

class Model2(models.model):
othermodels = ManyToManyField('Model1', db_table='model1_model2', related_name='model2_model1')


It's working great in my dev environment, because some of the tables got created piecemeal, as I built it all out. But from an empty database, syncdb throws: _mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (1050, "Table 'model1_model2' already exists")

Is there a flag that I'm missing from the second model's field to prevent duplicate table creation? Or am I just doing this entirely wrong?

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