[Izkata]

It wasn't anything that fancy, it's just the solution was something you usually try not to do so it just wasn't coming to mind for him. The data being looped over came from solr, and some of the fields were primary keys used in lookup tables in the database, for getting translated text. Instead of doing the lookup inline, load the entire table into a python dict before the loop (<100 rows for each of these tables) and do the lookup from the dict in the loop.

And like I said above, usually you don't just select out the entire contents of a table and handle it in the application, so I reflexively did the wrong thing as well, because of how easy it was to do with Django's ORM.