Question

I don’t want any ordering to be applied to a query. So, I have a QuerySet follow as:

question_obj = Question.objects.filter(pk__in=[100,50,27,35,10,42,68]).order_by()

However, when I retrieve the results, they are always ordered by questionID. I iterate the question_obj and this is the result:

for obj in question_obj:
   obj.questionID

The result is displayed such as:

10L
27L
35L
42L
50L
68L
100L

Answer 1

If you want to display the objects in the same order as the list of primary keys, then you could use in_bulk to create a dictionary keyed by pk. You can then use a list comprehension to generate the list of questions.

>>> pks = [100,50,27,35,10,42,68]
>>> questions_dict = Question.objects.in_bulk(pks)
>>> questions = [questions_dict[pk] for pk in pks]
>>> for question in questions:
        print question.pk
100
50
27
35
...