Fastest way to get the first object from a queryset in django?

Question

Often I find myself wanting to get the first object from a queryset in Django, or return None if there aren\'t any. There are lots of ways to do this which all

Answer 1

Use the convenience methods .first() and .last():

MyModel.objects.filter(blah=blah).first()

They both swallow the resulting exception and return None if the queryset returns no objects.

These were added in Django 1.6, which was released in Nov 2013.