> I'm new to python and django and I'm trying to do dynamic queries.
> Can't quite get it to work right, however. This is what I'm trying to
> do.
>
> field = "desc"
> query = User.objects.filter( field = "john")
>
> but meaning `field` the variable, not the column. I don't think that
> python does that, then what do i do to get dynamic column names?
You can use dictionary keyword args[1]:
params = {'desc': 'john'}
query = User.objects.filter(**params)
Thus, you can build the params dictionary with whatever
variable-names you want.
-tim
[1]
http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node6.html#SECTION006720000000000000000
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