Question

I want to check if an object returns a value in my views.py this is my code…

  city = City.objects.get(name=form.cleaned_data['autocompleteCity'])

So, I was thinking something like this…

  city = City.objects.get(name=form.cleaned_data['autocompleteCity'])

  if city:
     #we have results do something with city object
   else: 
     #no results display error and stop processing form.

what is the best way to approach this.

Answer 1

As the documentation states, .get() will always either return a single model, or it will raise one of two exceptions. Simply put the call in a try block, catch the relevant exceptions, and handle appropriately.