Re: Proposal: get_or_404()

[Simon Willison]

On 22 Sep 2005, at 15:44, Adrian Holovaty wrote:

    def foo_detail(request, some_lookup):
        try:
            f = foos.get_object(some_field__exact=some_lookup)
        except foos.FooDoesNotExist:
            raise Http404

This is another prime candidate for a decorator:

@on_not_exist_404
def foo_detail(request, some_lookup):
    f = foos.get_object(some_field__exact=some_lookup)
    ...

Cheers,

Simon