How do I convert a Django QuerySet into list of dicts?

Question

How can I convert a Django QuerySet into a list of dicts? I haven\'t found an answer to this so I\'m wondering if I\'m missing some sort of common helper function that every

Answer 1

The .values() method will return you a result of type ValuesQuerySet which is typically what you need in most cases.

But if you wish, you could turn ValuesQuerySet into a native Python list using Python list comprehension as illustrated in the example below.

result = Blog.objects.values()             # return ValuesQuerySet object
list_result = [entry for entry in result]  # converts ValuesQuerySet into Python list
return list_result

I find the above helps if you are writing unit tests and need to assert that the expected return value of a function matches the actual return value, in which case both expected_result and actual_result must be of the same type (e.g. dictionary).

actual_result = some_function()
expected_result = {
    # dictionary content here ...
}
assert expected_result == actual_result