Does latest()[0] work exactly as the original poster was looking for?
latest() works based on a date field, not the pk field (which *could*
return a result different than expected).
Tom's approach, explicitly ordering by pk, would work exactly as
desired.
On Feb 23, 6:08 am, Mike Ramirez <gufym...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 05:04:29 am Tom Evans wrote:
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> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube
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> > > How would one fetch a single item with the largest id (or most recent
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> > > Regards,
> > > Sithembewena Lloyd Dube
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> > Foo.objects.all().order_by('-pk')[0] ?
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> > Cheers
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> > Tom
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> also latest()[0]
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> Mike
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> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/models/querysets/#django.db....
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