Django QuerySet restriction

Question

You can limit the results to a QuerySet by doing something like this:

qs = MyModel.objects.all()[:3] 

Since QuerySet is usually evaluated lazily, is it possible to remove this limit from qs before repeating it?

I was hoping for something direct, like qs = qs[:] or qs = qs[0:] , but it doesn't work. So far I can only work qs.query.clear_limits() , but I'm not sure if this is part of the public API (I had to wade through the Django source code to find it).

Answer 1

According to Alasdair, it seems that the documented public API does not disclose the restrictions. Probably because it is not a very common thing.

In any case, since it is not documented anywhere, I consider it “internal” and is subject to change without notice.