I struggled to work this out and it's one of those problems that's
hard to work out what you should Google for.
It would make a worthy addition to the docs IMHO.
On May 10, 4:08 am, Greg Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks to both. Got it working.
>
> On May 9, 9:17 pm, Aaron Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Similarly, this will work also:field = 'sections' qry =
> > qry.filter(**{field+'__name__exact': 'shooting'})Cheers,
> > Aaron
> > John Lenton wrote:On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Greg Fuller<[EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]>wrote:Hello, I'm trying to build filter strings dynamically. The
> > normal way works: qry = qry.filter(sections__name__exact='printing') This
> > does not work: filter_str = "sections__name__exact='shooting'" qry =
> > qry.filter(filter_str) . The error is "too many values to unpack" at
> > django/db/models/sql/ query.py in add_filter, line 933 I realize something
> > outside normal name-spacing is probably happening, since
> > "sections__name__exact" doesn't have to be defined anywhere. But is there
> > any way to build the parameter to the filter dynamically?the usual python
> > way of building dynamic args: filter = {'sections__name__exact':
> > 'shooting'} qry = qry.filter(**filter)
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