Question

this is in my views and i call it in a form. when i submit the form i get “‘tuple’ object has no attribute ‘id'”

@login_required
def _login_save(request, form):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = LoginSaveForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            # Create or get login.
            login1 = login.objects.get_or_create(
                                                 id=1 #this is for testing reasons to get a specific record
                                                )
            login1.name=form.cleaned_data['name']
            login1.loginUrl = form.cleaned_data['url']
            login1.password = form.cleaned_data['password']
            login1.login_username = form.cleaned_data['Login_username']
            login1.notes = form.cleaned_data['notes']
            login1.save()
    return login1

Answer 1

get_or_create returns a tuple in the form of (instance, created) where created is, obviously, a boolean telling you whether it found the object or had to create it. When using get_or_create it’s best to just unpack it immediately:

login1, created = login.objects.get_or_create(...)

Then, you can use login1 as you assumed you could.