Remove duplicates in a Django query

Question

Is there a simple way to remove duplicates in the following basic query:

email_list = Emails.objects.order_by(\'email\')

I tried using

Answer 1

You may be able to use the distinct() function, depending on your model. If you only want to retrieve a single field form the model, you could do something like:

email_list = Emails.objects.values_list('email').order_by('email').distinct()

which should give you an ordered list of emails.