I just want to catch the exception thrown when the query returns nothing.
Thanks, that seems to have done the trick.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm not sure where you got that code snippet from, but DoesNotExist is
> an attribute on model classes, so that shoul read:
>
> except Tag.DoesNotExist.
>
> On Dec 8, 2:52 pm, Info Cascade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> How do I import the DoesNotExist exception?
>>
>> This doesn't seem to work:> from django.db.models.query import DoesNotExist
>>     
>>> try:
>>>     tag = Tag.objects.get(name=cat_name)
>>> except DoesNotExist:
>>>     # do something else
>>>       
>> Doesn't DoesNotExist exist?
>>     
> >
>
>   


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