Django: Generating a queryset from a GET request

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Published on 2010-10-24T23:38:09Z Indexed on 2010/12/27 20:54 UTC
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I have a Django form setup using GET method. Each value corresponds to attributes of a Django model. What would be the most elegant way to generate the query? Currently this is what I do in the view:

def search_items(request):
    if 'search_name' in request.GET:
        query_attributes = {}

        query_attributes['color'] = request.GET.get('color', '')
        if not query_attributes['color']: del query_attributes['color']

        query_attributes['shape'] = request.GET.get('shape', '')
        if not query_attributes['shape']: del query_attributes['shape']

        items = Items.objects.filter(**query_attributes)

But I'm pretty sure there's a better way to go about it.

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