alt Hacker NewsThe Django filter syntax with the double underscores is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. I find it insane that they didn't just use operator overloading to create a real query expression language.
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ezst • today at 9:03 AM
Or now that python has ~types, this is really an area where things could be improved. Filtering would just be lambda predicate with fields auto complete as seen in .NET, scala, etc
7bit • today at 10:10 AM
There may be many reason other than rejecting that suggestion leading to what it is know. Your statement somehow suggests that it was deliberately decided against what you propose. I don't think we know that.
I can't quite picture how operator overloading would look like, could you give an example?
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I think you can do that with querysets, Q, and F. The kwargs are a limited convenience.