Reload django object from database

As of Django 1.8 refreshing objects is built in. Link to docs.

def test_update_result(self):
    obj = MyModel.objects.create(val=1)
    MyModel.objects.filter(pk=obj.pk).update(val=F('val') + 1)
    # At this point obj.val is still 1, but the value in the database
    # was updated to 2. The object's updated value needs to be reloaded
    # from the database.
    obj.refresh_from_db()
    self.assertEqual(obj.val, 2)

As @Flimm pointed out, this is a really awesome solution:

foo.refresh_from_db()

This reloads all data from the database into the object.

I've found it relatively easy to reload the object from the database like so:

x = X.objects.get(id=x.id)