Question

I’m having a hard time trying to test weather a record in the database exists for a perticular ID in django.

something = User.objects.get(id=myID)
if something is None:
     text="No Record"

I need to do something like this.

Answer 1

Since rev 11646 (3 months ago) django has a special function for that (see ticket 11402):

if not User.objects.filter(id=myID).exists():
    text = "No Record"

That is more efficient since it generates EXISTS sql statement instead of populating the python object.