Django: Get an object form the DB, or 'None' if nothing matches

Question

Is there any Django function which will let me get an object form the database, or None if nothing matches?

Right now I\'m using something like:

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Answer 1

In Django 1.6 you can use the first() Queryset method. It returns the first object matched by the queryset, or None if there is no matching object.

Usage:

p = Article.objects.order_by('title', 'pub_date').first()

Answer 2

To add some sample code to sorki's answer (I'd add this as a comment, but this is my first post, and I don't have enough reputation to leave comments), I implemented a get_or_none custom manager like so:

from django.db import models

class GetOrNoneManager(models.Manager):
    """Adds get_or_none method to objects
    """
    def get_or_none(self, **kwargs):
        try:
            return self.get(**kwargs)
        except self.model.DoesNotExist:
            return None

class Person(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    objects = GetOrNoneManager()

And now I can do this:

bob_or_none = Person.objects.get_or_none(name='Bob')