About Empty Mandatory Foreign Keys

By default, if you try to read a mandatory foreign key that hasn't been assigned yet, you will get an ObjectDoesNotExist exception.

To avoid exception handling, you can use hasattr:

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if not hasattr(post, "user"):
    post.user = request.user

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