Not sure if this is efficient, but you can try wrapping the values_list in a set() call.
>>> set(ids1) == set(ids2) True >>> set(ids1) & set(ids2) set([1]) >>> ids3 = set([]) >>> r = set(ids1) & set(ids3) >>> r set([]) >>> len(r) 0 Cheers, AT On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Thomas Guettler <[email protected]> wrote: > I was surprised, that comparing querysets does not work: > > {{{ > from django.contrib.auth.models import User > user_id=User.objects.all().**order_by('id')[0].id > > if not User.objects.filter(id=user_**id)==User.objects.filter(id=** > user_id): > print 'Not equal? I think they should be' > > ids1=User.objects.filter(id=**user_id).values_list('id', flat=True) > ids2=User.objects.filter(id=**user_id).values_list('id', flat=True) > if not ids1==ids2: > print 'Not equal? I think they should be: %s %s' % (ids1, ids2) > > }}} > > Both, django 1.3 and 1.4 print this result: > Not equal? I think they should be > Not equal? I think they should be: [1] [1] > > I could not find a documentation of this in the django docs[1]. > > Before creating a doc-ticket I want to ask here. > > [1] > https://docs.djangoproject.**com/en/dev/ref/models/**querysets/<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/> > > -- > Thomas Guettler, http://www.thomas-guettler.de/ > E-Mail: guettli (*) thomas-guettler + de > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <django-users%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/django-users?hl=en<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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.

