Django values_list vs values Article.objects.values_list('id', flat=True) # flat=True will remove the tuples and return the list [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] Article.objects.values('id') [{'id':1}, {'id':2}, {'id':3}, {'id':4}, {'id':5}, {'id':6}] how to convert queryset into list of values Nodes.objects.filter(id=data_id[x]['portal_node'] ).values_list('sensors', flat=True)