You might want to refer to this recent article at Coding Horror: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001016.html
I would stick to what you have. (and I would also only do the calculation once and store it as a boolean field in the database as suggested : ) John On Jun 30, 7:13 am, mike171562 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I am working on a django that querys long distance numbers from a > mysql database. I am currently using the django API, that goes > something like this. > > long_distance = > Call.objects.filter(dest_num__startswith='1').filter(dest_num__gt=6).exclude(dest_num__startswith='18').exclude(dest_num__startswith='1281').exclude(dest_num__startswith='1832').exclude(dest_num__startswith='1713') > > I was hoping to consolidate all of my .filter excludes into one regex. > is this possible and would it be more efficient? Basically any number > that doesnt start with 281,713,832 or 1281,1713,or 1832 is long > distance any help would be appreciated. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
