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Sep 23, 2010

OR and AND without django.db.models.Q

I just found out that orand andare defined for QuerySet. This means that to do queries union or intersection, you can do:

User.objects.filter(...) | User.objects.filter(...)
User.objects.filter(...) & User.objects.filter(...)

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