Commit 6b39dd69 authored by Russell Keith-Magee's avatar Russell Keith-Magee
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Fixed #7260 -- Corrected the description of the exception returned by get()... 

Fixed #7260 -- Corrected the description of the exception returned by get() when multiple objects match the search criteria. Thanks, leotr.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@7559 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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docs/db-api.txt

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@@ -1061,7 +1061,12 @@ they query the database each time they're called. 
Returns the object matching the given lookup parameters, which should be in

the format described in `Field lookups`_.



``get()`` raises ``AssertionError`` if more than one object was found.

``get()`` raises ``MultipleObjectsReturned`` if more than one object was found.

The ``MultipleObjectsReturned`` exception is an attribute of the model class.

For example, the following will raise ``MultipleObjectsReturned`` if there

are more than one authors with the name of 'John'::



	Author.objects.get(name='John') # raises Author.MultipleObjectsReturned



``get()`` raises a ``DoesNotExist`` exception if an object wasn't found for the

given parameters. The ``DoesNotExist`` exception is an attribute of the model