Re: filter users by full name

actually meant the _users_ model

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/

</ryan>

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Ryan LeTulle <bayousoft@gmail.com> wrote:

O sorry, I took it that he was just trying to match both the first and last name in the admin model. (i.e. 2 fields)

</ryan>

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Shawn Milochik <shawn@milochik.com> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Ryan LeTulle <bayousoft@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why wouldn't you simply?
>
> User.objects.filter(firstname="John", lastname="Doe")
>
> </ryan>
>

Because the OP wants to accept a string containing full (both first
and last) name, and you can't reliably split that into "first name"
and "last name" pieces for a lot of reasons, some of which Scott
mentioned above.

Shawn

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