Re: values with distinct not working as expected

Thanks, that works!

But I don't understand why I should order_by to get distinct values.

On Jul 29, 3:59 pm, Subhranath Chunder <subhran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you don't want to uniquify yourself, then why not simply do:
> User.objects.values('username').order_by('username').distinct()
>
> or, going the way that were already heading, it would be:
> Visitor.objects.values('user__username').order_by('user__username'').distin ct()
>
> Thanks,
> Subhranath Chunder.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:29 PM, tuxcanfly <tuxcan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have this:
>
> > class Visitor(models.Model):
> >    user = models.ForeignKey(User)
> >    ......
> >    ......
>
> > I'm trying to get the distinct usernames, so I did this:
>
> >    Visitor.objects.values("user__username").distinct()
>
> > But this stil gives me duplicate usernames. Of course I could use a
> > flat values_list  and uniquify the result, but...
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