Question

I have a QuerySet, and I would like to order them numerically. The issue is the data is stored as a String. I know how to do this in SQL or a list, but not a query set. Is this even possible?

Answer 1

You’ll probably need to fallback to Django’s extra function. Perhaps:

ordered = (qs.extra(select={"order_column": "CONVERT(column, INTEGER)"})
           .order_by("order_column"))

(Assuming you’re using MySQL)