Django: Get an object form the DB, or ‘None’ if nothing matches

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There are two ways to do this;

try:
    foo = Foo.objects.get(bar=baz)
except model.DoesNotExist:
    foo = None

Or you can use a wrapper:

def get_or_none(model, *args, **kwargs):
    try:
        return model.objects.get(*args, **kwargs)
    except model.DoesNotExist:
        return None

Call it like this

foo = get_or_none(Foo, baz=bar)

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