Ignoring case with __startswith

Question

I'm trying to filter an object based off its first letter with: ``` topics = SpecialtyCategory.objects.filter(name__startswith=request.GET.get('filter')) ``` The problem is that the name could be "Example" or "example" and I want to get all SpecialtyCategory regardless of the case. How do I do this?

Accepted Answer

You want `__istartswith`:

```
topics = SpecialtyCategory.objects.filter(name__istartswith=request.GET.get('filter'))
```

There is a whole complement of `i` versions of queryset filters, which are all case insensitive: icontains, iexact, iregex, etc.

Ignoring case with __startswith

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