How do I check for Existence of a Record in GAE

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I am afraid you forgot to execute the query. Try the get() method. It returns the first result, or None if the query returned no results.

profile = db.GqlQuery("SELECT * FROM Profile WHERE account = :1",
                        users.get_current_user()).get()