Commit 676636ac authored by Alex Morozov's avatar Alex Morozov Committed by Tim Graham
Browse files

[1.8.x] Fixed #25132 -- Documented how to retrieve a single value using values_list() and get().

Backport of 4373eac9 from master
parent 383e2e1c
Loading
Loading
Loading
Loading
+6 −0
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -655,6 +655,12 @@ like a list. Most of the time this is enough, but if you require an actual
Python list object, you can simply call ``list()`` on it, which will evaluate
the queryset.

A common need is to get a specific field value of a certain model instance. To
achieve that, use ``values_list()`` followed by a ``get()`` call::

    >>> Entry.objects.values_list('headline', flat=True).get(pk=1)
    'First entry'

dates
~~~~~