Select distinct values from a table field

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Published on 2010-03-17T22:56:31Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 23:01 UTC
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I'm struggling getting my head around the Django's ORM. What I want to do is get a list of distinct values within a field on my table .... the equivalent of one of the following:

SELECT DISTINCT myfieldname FROM mytable

(or alternatively)

SELECT myfieldname FROM mytable GROUP BY myfieldname

I'd at least like to do it the Django way before resorting to raw sql.

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