Check if an object exists

Question

I need to check if Model.objects.filter(...) turned up anything, but do not need to insert anything. My code so far is:

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Answer 1

If the user exists you can get the user in user_object else user_object will be None.

try:
    user_object = User.objects.get(email = cleaned_info['username'])
except User.DoesNotExist:
    user_object = None
if user_object:
    # user exist
    pass
else:
    # user does not exist
    pass