Ah, gotcha. Maybe django should include a iin function =)
Kevin On Feb 25, 10:37 am, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Kevin Audleman > <kevin.audle...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > > What about the following? > > > qset = Q(author__in=[u"Foo", u"Bar"]) > > > Kevin > > > On Feb 25, 10:03 am, Peter Bengtsson <pete...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > This works: > > > > >>> from django.db.models import Q > > > >>> qset = Q(author__iexact=u"Foo") | Q(author__iexact=u"Bar") > > > >>> Books.objects.filter(qset) > > > > But what if the list of things I want to search against is a list. > > > E.g. > > > > >>> possible_authors = [u"Foo", u"Bar"] > > > > ??? > > > > I have a solution but it's very ugly and feels "clunky": > > > > qset = None > > > for each in [u"Foo", u"Bar"]: > > > if qset is None: > > > qset = Q(author__iexact=each) > > > else: > > > qset = qset | Q(author__iexact=each) > > Kevin, the way IN works at the SQL level basically means that it will be > doing an exact match against each item, which isn't what he wants, he wants > an iexact match. > > Alex > > -- > "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to > say it." --Voltaire > "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
