conversion of datetime Field to string in django queryset.values_list()

Question

I have a queryset like:

qs = MyModel.objects.filter(name=\'me\').values_list(\'activation_date\')

here activation_date is

Answer 1

You can also convert the date in queryset to string using map function. Example:

qs = MyModel.objects.filter(name='me').values_list('activation_date', flat=True)
data = map(str, qs)