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:

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Answer 1

I had the same problem trying to match word boundaries using the Perl-compatible escape sequence \b. My backend database is MySQL.

I solved the problem by the character class expression [[:space:]], e.g.

        q_sum = Q()
        search_list = self.form.cleaned_data['search_all'].split(' ');
        for search_item in search_list:
            search_regex = r"[[:space:]]%s[[:space:]]" % search_item
            q_sum |= Q(message__iregex=search_regex)
        queryset = BlogMessages.objects.filter(q_sum).distinct()