Tools to ease executing raw SQL with Django ORM
Since the issue is "manually converting query results into objects," the simplest solution is often to see if your custom SQL can fit into an ORM .extra() call rather than being a pure-SQL query.  Often it can, and then you let the ORM do all the work of building up objects as usual.
I often need to execute custom sql queries in django, and manually converting query results into objects every time is kinda painful. I wonder how fellow Slackers deal with this. Maybe someone had written some kind of a library to help dealing with custom SQL in Django?