Django snippets

from django.db.models.query import Q
def superSearch(model, fields, matches, strings):
	"""
	Designed to lessen the code needed to run complex searches with ORed filters.  
	Model: the model being queried.
	fields: an iterable containing string names of fields to query.
	match:  an iterable containing strings of what type of Django lookup to apply to those fields.
	strings: an iterable containing strings to be matched.
	"""
	queries = []
	for field in fields:
		for string in strings:
			for match in matches:
				kwargs = {'%s__%s' % (field, match): string}
				queries.append(Q(**kwargs))
	q = Q()
	for query in queries:
		q = q | query
	return model.objects.filter(q)