A simple function that will do a fake distinct on a django model; Why? Well, filter.distinct() apparently doesn't work with mysql because #$%#@$%#

simple_django_fake_distinct.py

def fake_distinct_for_model_field_values(dj_model, field_name):
    """
    Perform a fake distinct query on the value_list of a model's objects
    example:  from myapp.models import ActivityLog
              import fake_distinct_for_model_field_values as fake_dist
              fake_dist(ActivityLog, 'event_types')
          >>> [u'login', u'media-download', u'media-thumbnail', u'media-download-image']
    """
    output = set()
    for x in dj_model.objects.values_list(field_name):
        output.add(x.__getitem__(0))
    return list(output)