How do I get the object if it exists, or None if it does not exist?

Question

When I ask the model manager to get an object, it raises DoesNotExist when there is no matching object.

go = Content.objects.get(name=\"baby\")
         


        

Answer 1

To make things easier, here is a snippet of the code I wrote, based on inputs from the wonderful replies here:

class MyManager(models.Manager):

    def get_or_none(self, **kwargs):
        try:
            return self.get(**kwargs)
        except ObjectDoesNotExist:
            return None

And then in your model:

class MyModel(models.Model):
    objects = MyManager()

That's it. Now you have MyModel.objects.get() as well as MyModel.objetcs.get_or_none()