[oozcitak]

I agree with your first paragraph but not with the Django example. User.objects.get(id=1) failing is exceptional because you are asking for an object with a specific and unique property. Otherwise, you would be using User.objects.filter(age>20) (which doesn't throw an exception).

[dscrd]

I might kinda agree that exact queries against primary keys not having results (or having more than 1) would be exceptional, but this actually happens for every other field as well.