Django

Django - update_or_create

Django's update_or_create() method either-

• updates an existing object with the given kwargs along with a defaults dictionary of pairs for updating the object
• creates a new object if it doesn't exist

It returns a tuple containing an object and a boolean specifying whether a new object was created.

Visitor.objects.create(name="Harry", surname="Potter", age=16)

visitor, created = Visitor.objects.update_or_create(
    name="Harry", surname="Potter", defaults={"age": 21}
)

print(visitor.age)
# => '21'

print(created)
# => False