Getting the SQL from a Django QuerySet

You print the queryset's query attribute.

>>> queryset = MyModel.objects.all()
>>> print(queryset.query)
SELECT "myapp_mymodel"."id", ... FROM "myapp_mymodel"

Easy:

print(my_queryset.query)

For example:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
print(User.objects.filter(last_name__icontains = 'ax').query)

It should also be mentioned that if you have DEBUG = True, then all of your queries are logged, and you can get them by accessing connection.queries:

from django.db import connections
connections['default'].queries

The django debug toolbar project uses this to present the queries on a page in a neat manner.

This middleware will output every SQL query to your console, with color highlighting and execution time, it's been invaluable for me in optimizing some tricky requests

http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/290/

As an alternative to the other answers, django-devserver outputs SQL to the console.