[Fixed]-TypeError: ‘DoesNotExist’ object is not callable

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As Chris says in the comments above, your snippet is valid. Somewhere else in your code, you may be catching exceptions incorrectly.

You may have something like:

try:
    do_something()
except User.MultipleObjectsReturned, User.DoesNotExist:
    pass

instead of:

try:
    do_something()
except (User.MultipleObjectsReturned, User.DoesNotExist):
    pass

Without the parentheses, the except statement is equivalent to the following in Python 2.6+ 

except User.MultipleObjectsReturned as User.DoesNotExist:

The instance of the User.MultipleObjectsReturned exception overwrites User.DoesNotExist.

When the same process handles a different request later on, you get
the TypeError because your code is trying to call the exception instance which has replaced User.DoesNotExist.

👤Alasdair

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