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

We can use Django builtin exception which attached to the models named as .DoesNotExist. So, we don't have to import ObjectDoesNotExist exception.

Instead doing:

from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist

try:
    content = Content.objects.get(name="baby")
except ObjectDoesNotExist:
    content = None

We can do this:

try:
    content = Content.objects.get(name="baby")
except Content.DoesNotExist:
    content = None