Create tuple from Django Raw Query Set

Question

I'm doing a simple query:

q = `Select * from table`
Table.objects.raw(q)

which will give me RawQuerySet .

Is there a way to get the result in the form of tuple of tuples ? eg If there would have been just 2 fields in the table, then the result would look like:

((1, 'name1'), (2, name2))

Answer 1

Any reason not to do it in Python?

rqs = Table.objects.raw(q)
tuples = tuple((o.pk, o.name) for o in rqs)

Answer 2

If you don't want to return model instances, then I don't see any advantage in using raw() . You can execute custom SQL directly instead:

from django.db import connection

with connection.cursor() as cursor:
    cursor.execute('SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE baz = %s', [self.baz])
    result = cursor.fetchall()