How to limit columns returned by Django query ?

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Published on 2010-03-15T17:07:55Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 17:09 UTC
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That seems simple enough, but all Django Queries seems to be 'SELECT *'

How do I build a query returning only a subset of fields ?

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