Checking for empty queryset in Django

Question

What is the recommended idiom for checking whether a query returned any results?
Example:

orgs = Organisation.objects.filter(name__iexact = \'Fjuk inc\')         


        

Answer 1

To check the emptiness of a queryset:

if orgs.exists():
    # Do something

or you can check for a the first item in a queryset, if it doesn't exist it will return None:

if orgs.first():
    # Do something