How to Query model where name contains any word in python list?

Question

Aim to Achieve:

I want all objects where name attribute contains any word from the list.

I have:

list = [\'word1\',\'word2\',\'word3\']
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Answer 1

ob_list = data.objects.filter(name__in=my_list)

And BTW, avoid using the variable name "list" (Or any other python standard keyword), lest you get into some weird bugs later.

Update: (I guess your question was updated too, because when I wrote the answer, I didn't see the part where you wrote you need a contains match and not an exact match)

You can do that using the regex search too, avoiding many Q expressions (which end up using that many where "and" clauses in the SQL, possibly dampening the performance), as follows:

data.objects.filter(name__regex=r'(word1|word2|word3)')