Question

name_iexact keyword is a parameter we can pass to filter function in django.model. Can someone please help me understand what it does?

Map.objects.filter(name__iexact=self.cleaned_data["name"]).count()

Answer 1

It’s a case insensitive match. It will retrive database records with “name” field matching self.cleaned_data["name"], while the case doesn’t necessarily have to match.

You can construct those lookups appending __iexact to any field name. See the documentation for more on iexact or for list of other similar field lookups.