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25279	Make prefetch_related_objects a public API	Adam Johnson	nobody	"`prefetch_related` is great, but it would be nice to be able to reuse its capabilities with lists of model instances already retrieved by other code (or from cache, or newly constructed, etc.). It seems this is possible by using `django.db.models.query.prefetch_related_objects` which is the function implementing all the prefetch capability - I've just seen it used fine, however it is not part of Django's public API.

As far as I can tell, just doing an `import` in `django.db.models.__init__` and adding documentation should be enough to make it public, since `prefetch_related_objects` contains all the functionality that `prefetch_related` exposes.

[https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-developers/xjxKnhEDl7s/discussion django-developers discussion]"	New feature	new	Database layer (models, ORM)	1.8	Normal				Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0