Creating a dynamic sized OR query using Sunburnt+Solr

Question

I'm trying out the python Solr interface Sunburnt , and I've come across a little problem I can't seem to figure out. From my search field, I want to accept an arbitrary number of words which I put in an array (e.g. "Music 'Iron Maiden'" -> ['Music', 'Iron Maiden']. This I've figured out (using shlex). The problem is that Sunburnt syntax for ORing terms is ``` response = si.query(si.Q(tag = 'Music') | si.Q(tag = 'Iron Maiden')) ``` How can I iterate over my searchword list and end up with something like the above? Or is there any other way of doing it that I'm not aware of?

Accepted Answer

What you really want to do is this:

```
query = si.query()

for word in words:
    query |= si.Q(word)
```

or, as a one-liner

```
query = reduce(operator.or_, [si.Q(word) for word in words])
```

Creating a dynamic sized OR query using Sunburnt+Solr

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