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| author | Adrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com> | 2006-04-27 22:10:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Adrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com> | 2006-04-27 22:10:08 +0000 |
| commit | ad8faa7e94f7dca522e2419c3a1c8c1503461745 (patch) | |
| tree | a08b3cf2ff2e9a6b78efee4722f26c777b589a21 /docs/db-api.txt | |
| parent | dd184fb06ef67dad381182cbbdfc4f18902e48e6 (diff) | |
magic-removal: Small improvement to docs/db-api.txt
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/magic-removal@2752 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/db-api.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/db-api.txt b/docs/db-api.txt index ec0fbb6554..28bd236fe5 100644 --- a/docs/db-api.txt +++ b/docs/db-api.txt @@ -1035,11 +1035,12 @@ equivalent:: Escaping parenthesis and underscores in LIKE statements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The field lookups that equate to ``LIKE`` SQL statements will automatically -escape the two special characters used in ``LIKE`` statements -- the percent -sign and the underscore. (In a ``LIKE`` statement, the percent sign signifies -a multiple-character wildcard and the underscore signifies a single-character -wildcard.) +The field lookups that equate to ``LIKE`` SQL statements (``iexact``, +``contains``, ``icontains``, ``startswith``, ``istartswith``, ``endswith`` +and ``iendswith``) will automatically escape the two special characters used in +``LIKE`` statements -- the percent sign and the underscore. (In a ``LIKE`` +statement, the percent sign signifies a multiple-character wildcard and the +underscore signifies a single-character wildcard.) This means things should work intuitively, so the abstraction doesn't leak. For example, to retrieve all the entries that contain a percent sign, just use |
