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Sorting Database Results
Use the order_by method to sort QuerySets. Prefixing a field name with a hyphen (-) sorts the results in descending order.
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from .models import Article# Get all articles sorted by date (newest first)latest_articles = Article.objects.all().order_by('-published_date')
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Article.objects.all()
Retrieves all records from the Article table.
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.order_by('-published_date')
Sorts the retrieved objects by the date field in reverse chronological order.