How to handle an empty input passed through a form in django?

Question

I am working on my first django project and I encountered a problem that I could not find any viable solution. So, I am trying to create an e-commerce website. I created a basic search bar and I am trying to render everything that matches the input. The problem occurred at one of the edge cases. If I send an empty input, the following error is being raised:

Exception Value:    
The view mainpages.views.search didn't return an HttpResponse object. It returned None instead.

I tried to handle this, but I failed. I've searched for answers, but unsuccessfully. I sincerely appreciate your time!

Code: views.py

def search(request):
    if request.method == 'GET' and 'q' in request.GET:
        query = request.GET.get('q')
        try:
            if query:
                objects_list= ComputerScienceProducts.objects.filter(
                    Q(name__icontains=query)
                )
                if list(objects_list) is None:
                    return render(request, 'search_error.html')
                else:
                    return render(request, 'search_result.html', {"objects_list": objects_list})
        except:
            return render(request, 'search_error.html')
    else:
        return render(request, 'search_error.html')

template:

{% block cont2 %}
<div class="background"></div>
    <div class="inp">
        <form action="{% url 'search_results' %}" method="get">
            {% csrf_token %}
            <label>
                <i class="bi bi-search" style="position: absolute; margin-left: 15px;margin-top: 13px;"></i>
                <input type="text" placeholder="What are you looking for?" class="search" name="q">
            </label>
        </form>
    </div>
    <div class="container" style="margin-top: 20px;">
{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
    {% if objects_list %}
        {% for prod in objects_list %}
            <div class="card" id="cardDisplay">
                <img class="card-img-top" src="{{ prod.img.url }}" alt="Card image" id="image_prod">
                <div class="card-body">
                    <h4 class="card-title">  {{ prod.name }}</h4>
                    <p class="card-text">Price: {{ prod.price }} lei <br>
                    <a href="{% url 'prod_details'  prod.pk %}" class="card-text">Details</a></p>
                    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Add to chart</button>
                </div>
            </div>
        {% endfor%}
    {% else %}
       <p class="updt"> No item has been matched to your search</p>
    {% endif %}
    </div>

{% endblock %}

Answer 1

This return all items...

def search(request):
        if request.method == 'GET' and 'q' in request.GET:
            query = request.GET.get('q')
            if query is None:
                query = ""
            .....

OR

This return error page..

def search(request):
    if request.method == 'GET' and 'q' in request.GET:
        query = request.GET.get('q')
        try:
            if query:
                objects_list= ComputerScienceProducts.objects.filter(
                    Q(name__icontains=query)
                )
                if list(objects_list) is None:
                    return render(request, 'search_error.html')
                else:
                    return render(request, 'search_result.html', {"objects_list": objects_list})
          ➡➡else:
              ➡➡return render(request, 'search_error.html')
        except:
            return render(request, 'search_error.html')
    else:
        return render(request, 'search_error.html')