How can I retrieve last x elements in Django

Question

Hello, I am trying to retrieve the latest 5 posts (by post time) In the views.py, if I try blog_post_list = blogPosts.objects.all()[:5] It retreives the first 5 elements of the blogPosts objects, how can I reverse this to retreive the latest ones?

Cheers

Answer 1

blog_post_list = blogPosts.objects.all().reverse()[:5]
# OR
blog_post_list = blogPosts.objects.all().order_by('-DEFAULT_ORDER_KEY')[:5]

I prefer the first.

Answer 2

Based on Nick Presta's answer and your comment, try:

blog_post_list = blogPosts.objects.all().order_by('-pub_date')[:5]