Question

I’m trying to filter out multiple emails from a queryset in order to stop our employee emails from affecting any exports. I have the following in settings.py:

EMAIL_FILTERS = ['email1', 'email2']

and I’m trying to use this to filter out any entries in the DB with our emails in the following query:

EMAIL_FILTERS = getattr(settings, 'EMAIL_FILTERS')

campaigns = CampaignsSignup.objects.filter(created_date__gte=self._get_start_date(dte), 
                                    created_date__lte=self._get_end_date(dte)).order_by('-created_date')

However after trying Q and exclude I can’t seem to get it to work. I should also note as much as I would like to be able to use endswith some of the employees are using their personal email address so at the moment it wouldn’t be viable.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I see you’ve found a solution, but the normal way to do this is with exclude:

campaigns = CampaignsSignup.objects.filter(
                created_date__gte=self._get_start_date(dte), 
                created_date__lte=self._get_end_date(dte)
            ).order_by('-created_date').exclude(email__in=SAVCHAMP_EMAIL_FILTERS)