Fixed #20408 -- Clarified that values_list() doesn't return a list.

Thanks marktranchant, bmispelon, and alextreme.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt b/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt
index ffada19082..14123cd79a 100644
--- a/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt
@@ -544,6 +544,11 @@ It is an error to pass in ``flat`` when there is more than one field.
 If you don't pass any values to ``values_list()``, it will return all the
 fields in the model, in the order they were declared.
 
+Note that this method returns a ``ValuesListQuerySet``. This class behaves
+like a list. Most of the time this is enough, but if you require an actual
+Python list object, you can simply call ``list()`` on it, which will evaluate
+the queryset.
+
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