> Right, but the better way to actually write this is something like Maybe for some cases, but it does not do the exact same thing, see the comment here: https

> Right, but the better way to actually write this is something like Maybe for some cases, but it does not do the exact same thing, see the comment here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/29455777/1598080 https://stackoverflow.com/a/29455777/1598080 And if we are talking about idiomatic, I think it is maybe a stretch to count this as idiomatic for Python, but given it is documented for Django I think it is fair to call it idiomatic for Django.