Why wouldn't you simply? User.objects.filter(firstname="John", lastname="Doe")
</ryan> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Scott Gould <zinck...@gmail.com> wrote: > It won't work because there's no database column that corresponds to > the full name. > > A simple but limited alternative would be to split the string on " " > and use the result as first_name and last_name, but you would probably > want to take into account first_names and/or last_names with > legitimate spaces in them (e.g. "Mary Ann" or "van der Waal", perhaps > by compiling a list of each possible configuration and using that to > filter on with first_name__in and last_name__in. > > > On Jul 22, 2:06 pm, Matias <matiassu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What is the recommended way to get all the users whose full_name matches > > a given string? > > > > I need to do something like: > > > > User.objects.filter(get_full_name="John Test") > > > > But that doesn't seem to work. > > > > Is list comprehensions the only way to go? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
