How do you catch this exception?

Question

This code is in django/db/models/fields.py It creates/defines an exception?

class ReverseSingleRelatedObjectDescriptor(six.with_metaclass(RenameRelatedObjec         


        

Answer 1

If you don't want to import the related model class, you can:

except MyModel.related_field.RelatedObjectDoesNotExist:

or

except my_model_instance._meta.model.related_field.RelatedObjectDoesNotExist:

where related_field is the field name.