Django Get Unique Values From Queryset

Django querysets allow you to query objects and retrieve values. They are equivalent to running database queries. While working with Django querysets you may need to retrieve distinct values from objects. In this article, we will learn how to get unique values in queryset.

Django Get Unique Values From Queryset

Django provides a distinct() function to easily get distinct values of queryset result. Let us say you have an object Sales(user_id, product_id, order_id, date, amount)

Let us say you want to retrieve all unique user_id values from your sales table, then here is the query for it.

distinct_users = Sales.objects.all().values_list('user_id', flat=True).distinct()

If you want to get distinct objects, instead of values, then remove flat=True from the above query, and use values() instead of values_list().

distinct_users = Sales.objects.all().values('user_id').distinct()

In the above code, we add distinct() at the end of queryset to get distinct values. Django will first retrieve list of all user_id values, and then get distinct values of out of them.

If you want to get a count of the above distinct values, you can chain count() function after distinct() function.

count_distinct_users = Sales.objects.all().values_list('user_id', flat=True).distinct().count()

If you want to filter the data and get distinct values out of the filtered result, then you can use filter() function instead of all(), before distinct(), as shown below. Here is the query to get distinct user_id for sales rows where product_id=12345

 distinct_users = Sales.objects.filter(product_id=12345).values('user_id').distinct() 

In this short article, we have learnt different ways to get distinct values from queryset in Django.

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