I have a simple model:
class News(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=255, verbose_name=_("title"))
content = models.TextField(default='', verbose_name=_("content"))
panel = models.CharField(max_length=50, default='', verbose_name=_("panel"))
created = TzDateTimeProperty(auto_now_add=True, verbose_name=_("date created"))
lastmodified = TzDateTimeProperty(auto_now=True, verbose_name=_("date modified"))
I want to get the 5 recent news records, and I know that with Google App Engine DB queryset I can get 5 recent records in the following easy way:
results = News.all().filter(panel = panel).order('created').fetch(5)
With Django running in Google App Engine I would need to do:
results = News.objects.filter(panel = panel).order_by('created')[:5]
But it will throw exception if there are no news records. I could wrap it within catch exception, but what is the proper and optimized way to limit query results within Django?