What's best practice to check if an object is part of a ManyToMany relationship in Django

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Published on 2010-03-15T17:37:50Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 17:39 UTC
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from an instance of Site with a ManyToMany relationship to Kiosk, i'd like to check if a Kiosk object is part of the relationship.

I could do

self.apps.get(id=app_id).exists() and check if True

or

self.apps.get(id=app_id) and catch the ObjectDoesNotExist error

or

self.apps.filter(id=app_id) and check if True
  • If I have to catch a possible ObjectDoesNotExist error, I may as well use the second one
  • I can do the second but doesnt seem super clean
  • can use the third one but using filter on a unique ID seems wrong to me

You can tell me to use whatever works and that'll be a valid answer ;-)

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