django filter icontains match whole words only

Question

I am using the filter icontains to search for words but I only want it to match whole words. e.g. if I searched for liver I wouldn\'t want it returning delivery.

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Answer 1

It sounds like you want a Case-insensitive exact match.

MyModel.objects.filter(title__iexact=search_word)

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#lookup-iexact