It worked !!!
My apologies, that was probably a no brainier for you, but I for the
life of me could not figure it out. I am still quite GREEN.
Thanks a bunch :-)!!!
On Mar 3, 4:04 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:01 PM, dj <d.a.aberna...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a list of objects : ships= [<Ship: Oscar Dyson>, <Ship: Miller
> > Freeman> <Ship: Nancy Foster>,<Ship: Hi Ialakai>]
>
> > Each ship object has these attributes with an associated value:
> > name Hi Ialakai
> > abbr WTEY
> > ship Hi Ialakai
> > cruise Dune
> > slug dune-wtey
>
> > Given a variable containing the name of an attribute in the object
> > (EX: field=cruise) and the value they are searching for (EX:
> > value='Dune'), I want t get the objects with a matching attrtibute and
> > value.
> > (EX: Ship.objects.filter(field=value)
>
> > How do I do this ?
>
> You can do it using the python kwarg syntax: Ship.objects.filter(**{field:
> value}). You want to make sure you sanitze field so that the user can't
> filter against something you don't want though.
>
> Alex
>
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