title: For Django models, is there a shortcut for seeing if a record exists?
body: <p>Say I have a table <code>People</code>, is there a way to just quickly check if a <code>People</code> object exists with a name of <code>'Fred'</code>? I know I can query</p>
  
  <pre><code>People.objects.filter(Name='Fred')
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  <p>and then check the length of the returned result, but is there a way to do it in a more elegant way?</p>