Commit ecb3e314 authored by Alex Morozov's avatar Alex Morozov Committed by Tim Graham
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[1.9.x] Fixed #25132 -- Documented how to retrieve a single value using values_list() and get().

Backport of 4373eac9 from master
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@@ -641,6 +641,12 @@ It is an error to pass in ``flat`` when there is more than one field.
If you don't pass any values to ``values_list()``, it will return all the
fields in the model, in the order they were declared.

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'

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