Django query case-insensitive list match

Question

I have a list of names that I want to match case insensitive, is there a way to do it without using a loop like below?

a = [\'name1\', \'name2\', \'name3\']
         


        

Answer 1

Adding onto what Rasmuj said, escape any user-input like so

import re
result = Name.objects.filter(name__iregex=r'(' + '|'.join([re.escape(n) for n in a]) + ')')