how to catch the MultipleObjectsReturned error in django

Question

Is it possible to catch the MultipleObjectsReturned error in Django?

I do a searchquery and if there are more than one objects I want that the first in the list will be taken so I tried this:

try:     Location.objects.get(name='Paul') except MultipleObjectsReturned:     Location.objects.get(name='Paul')[0] 

However, it exists in the doc though

global variable MultipleObjectsReturned does not exist

Answer 1

Use a filter:

Location.objects.filter(name='Paul').first() 

Or import the exception:

from django.core.exceptions import MultipleObjectsReturned ... try:     Location.objects.get(name='Paul') except MultipleObjectsReturned:     Location.objects.filter(name='Paul').first()