Try:
directory.models.Entity.objects.get(pk=id)
Which does pretty much the same thing as:
directory.models.Entity.objects.filter(id__exact = id)[0]
(note id__exact rather than id__equals)
On Jul 14, 3:18 pm, Jonathan Hayward
<christos.jonathan.hayw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How do I look up a model instance by id (its primary key)? I have:
>
> entity = directory.models.Entity.objects.filter(id__equals = id)[0]
>
> and am getting:
>
> FieldError at /profile/1
>
> Join on field 'id' not permitted. Did you misspell 'equals' for the lookup
> type?
>
> Is there another way I should be going about this given the id field
> beforehand?
>
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