On Mar 30, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Calvin Spealman wrote:
> I think your best bet is
>
> MyModel.objects.filter(some_field__in=ok_values).count() == len(ok_values)
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:44 PM, dmitry b <dmitry.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there a way to check in bulk for record existence and get back a
>> map of results similar to what's returned by in_bulk(). In my case, I
>> need to look up records by a unique field which is not the primary key
>> and I don't want object instances back, just true or false.
You could use values_list and flat as in:
User.objects.filter(username__in =['jason', 'was',
'here']).values_list('username', flat=True)
returns a list:
[u'jason', u'was']
After that you can figure out the best way to perform the lookup.
Jason
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Dmitry
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