Django Queryset filter for arguments in a list

Question

I have a list of names:

name_list = ['John', 'Bill', 'Charlie']

I would like to filter for results where the name field matches any of these names. How can I implement this in queryset? The code I am using is:

Special_group = People.objects.filter(name=name_list(?))

Thanks.

Answer 1

You are looking for this query.

Special_group = People.objects.filter(name__in=name_list)

This type of query is called a field_lookup in Django. There are a lot of other operations such as iexact, contains, lte, gte and a lot more.