Whole-word match only in Django query

Question

I am trying to write a Django query that will only match whole words. Based on the answer here, I\'ve tried something like:

result = Model.objects.filter(te         


        

Answer 1

You might be able to get something by dropping the regex and using a few django lookups

result = Model.objects.filter(Q(text__contains=' someword ') |
                              Q(text__contains=' someword.') |
                              Q(text__istartswith = 'someword.' |
                              Q(text__istartswith = 'someword.' |
                              Q(text__iendswith = 'someword')

see here for docs.

I realize that's not so elegant (but makes for easy maintenance if you're not a fan of regex).