How to Get a Certain Number of Elements from a Django Database

Question

I have a simple class:

class BlogPost(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=150)
    ...
    timestamp = models.DateTimeField()

How can I get the last five items from the database?

I tried to do this:

posts = BlogPost.objects.<any code>

Answer 1

BlogPost.objects.order_by('-timestamp')[:5]