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

The most efficient way (before django 1.2) is this:

if orgs.count() == 0:
    # no results
else:
    # alrigh! let's continue...