tamara6, el  5 de febrero a las 06:23 me escribiste:
> 
> In another thread, this was said:
> 
> >>So something that actually had me hung up for a long time was how to
> >> do something like this:
> >> "select * from Someplace where something like '%word%' "
> 
> > >The Django docs show how to do this clearly with the keyword CONTAINS
> > >and shows the SQL equivalent.
> 
> >that is a common misconception of ORM I have to agree that SO takes it a
> >little to far into the Object part but you need to stop thinking of queries
> >that is not how a ORM is supposed to work, you don't do select * or select
> >col1,col2,col3, you ask for the object Foo and it will return that object
> >you will ask for all objects of type foo that have lastname = var.
> 
> I would like to know what the proper ORM way of searching for all
> objects with lastnames that contain "smith."  I'd like it to return
> names like Smithson, Blacksmith, and Besmither, as well as just plain
> Smith.
> 
> I know how to do this with a %like% search in sql, but, I'd like to do
> it correctly with SO.
> 
> Any tips?

This is not a good solution if you have a big set of data, but it's the
recommended way to do it in SO (the OO way):

smiths = [x for x in SOClass.select() if x.lastname.find('smith.') >= 0]

If your dataset is too big for doing this you could /optimize/ it with
SQLBuilder as Diez said.

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