Funnily enough, I recently optimized some code along these lines. The way I sped it up was to call `.values()` on the query, which serializes the data into a d

Funnily enough, I recently optimized some code along these lines. The way I sped it up was to call `.values()` on the query, which serializes the data into a dict and prevented me from accidentally making subsueqent calls. PS: Indent by 4 spaces for code formatting.