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Why Django think OR is complex?

I read some model operation from Django’s document, and find this

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I’m curious that OR in WHERE is just basic concept, why Django think it’s a complex query?

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Answer

Actually, what’s “more complex” here is the full query syntax, whatever the logical operator. The full syntax for an “AND” query is

but since in practice you more often use AND queries than OR queries, the ORM provides a shortcut for AND queries:

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