Getting next and previous objects in Django
Add an order_by
clause to ensure it orders by number
.
next_issue = Issue.objects.filter(title=title, number__gt=issue.number).order_by('number').first()
I know this is a bit late, but for anyone else, django does have a nicer way to do this, see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/models/instances/#django.db.models.Model.get_previous_by_FOO
So the answer here would be something something like
next_issue = Issue.get_next_by_number(issue, title=title)
Django managers to do that with a bit of meta class cleaverness.