python – How to delete a record in Django models?

I want to delete a particular record. Such as

delete from table_name where id = 1;

How can I do this in a django model?

There are a couple of ways:

To delete it directly:

SomeModel.objects.filter(id=id).delete()

To delete it from an instance:

instance = SomeModel.objects.get(id=id)
instance.delete()

MyModel.objects.get(pk=1).delete()

this will raise exception if the object with specified primary key doesn’t exist because at first it tries to retrieve the specified object.

MyModel.objects.filter(pk=1).delete()

this wont raise exception if the object with specified primary key doesn’t exist and it directly produces the query

DELETE FROM my_models where id=1

if you want to delete one instance then write the code

entry= Account.objects.get(id= 5)
entry.delete()

if you want to delete all instance then write the code

entries= Account.objects.all()
entries.delete()

If you want to delete one item

wishlist = Wishlist.objects.get(id = 20)
wishlist.delete()

If you want to delete all items in Wishlist for example

Wishlist.objects.all().delete()

you can delete the objects directly from the admin panel or else there is also an option to delete specific or selected id from an interactive shell by typing in python3 manage.py shell (python3 in Linux). If you want the user to delete the objects through the browser (with provided visual interface) e.g. of an employee whose ID is 6 from the database, we can achieve this with the following code, emp = employee.objects.get(id=6).delete()

THIS WILL DELETE THE EMPLOYEE WITH THE ID is 6.

If you wish to delete the all of the employees exist in the DB instead of get(), specify all() as follows: employee.objects.all().delete()