python - How do I convert a Django QuerySet into list of dicts?

Question

How can I convert a Django QuerySet into a list of dicts? I haven't found an answer to this so I'm wondering if I'm missing some sort of common helper function that everyone uses.

Answer 1

Use the .values() method:

>>> Blog.objects.values()
[{'id': 1, 'name': 'Beatles Blog', 'tagline': 'All the latest Beatles news.'}],
>>> Blog.objects.values('id', 'name')
[{'id': 1, 'name': 'Beatles Blog'}]

Note: the result is a QuerySet which mostly behaves like a list, but isn't actually an instance of list. Use list(Blog.objects.values(…)) if you really need an instance of list.