Django database query: How to get object by id?

Question

Django automatically creates an id field as primary key.

Now I need to get the object by this id.

object = Class.objects.filter() 

How

Answer 1

In case you don't have some id, e.g., mysite.com/something/9182301, you can use get_object_or_404 importing by from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404.

Use example:

def myFunc(request, my_pk):
    my_var = get_object_or_404(CLASS_NAME, pk=my_pk)