From ecb3e314cb0ce4b7fe65e208ea76557443ae6e06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Morozov Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 15:42:43 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] [1.9.x] Fixed #25132 -- Documented how to retrieve a single value using values_list() and get(). Backport of 4373eac99828d99718a7b245d160e7e64fce2e95 from master --- docs/ref/models/querysets.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt b/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt index 25fa01421d..458c70d736 100644 --- a/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt +++ b/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt @@ -641,6 +641,12 @@ It is an error to pass in ``flat`` when there is more than one field. If you don't pass any values to ``values_list()``, it will return all the fields in the model, in the order they were declared. +A common need is to get a specific field value of a certain model instance. To +achieve that, use ``values_list()`` followed by a ``get()`` call:: + + >>> Entry.objects.values_list('headline', flat=True).get(pk=1) + 'First entry' + dates ~~~~~