Django
QuerySet laziness
A QuerySet builds a query without executing it until evaluated - iterated, sliced, len(), list() or bool().
Why interviewers ask about it
Laziness is why chained filters cost nothing extra, and also why N+1 hides so well: the extra query fires at attribute access, far from where the queryset was defined.
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