Commit f0d46767 authored by Aymeric Augustin's avatar Aymeric Augustin
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Fixed #10139 -- Clarified that slicing an evaluated QuerySet returns a list,... 

Fixed #10139 -- Clarified that slicing an evaluated QuerySet returns a list, not a QuerySet. Thanks ori for the patch.


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docs/ref/models/querysets.txt

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* **Slicing.** As explained in :ref:`limiting-querysets`, a ``QuerySet`` can

  be sliced, using Python's array-slicing syntax. Usually slicing a

  ``QuerySet`` returns another (unevaluated) ``QuerySet``, but Django will

  execute the database query if you use the "step" parameter of slice

  syntax.

  be sliced, using Python's array-slicing syntax. Slicing an unevaluated

  ``QuerySet`` usually returns another unevaluated ``QuerySet``, but Django

  will execute the database query if you use the "step" parameter of slice

  syntax, and will return a list. Slicing a ``QuerySet`` that has been

  evaluated (partially or fully) also returns a list.



* **Pickling/Caching.** See the following section for details of what

  is involved when `pickling QuerySets`_. The important thing for the