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19th June 2023 - Link Blog

Building Search DSLs with Django (via) Neat tutorial by Dan Lamanna: how to build a GitHub-style search feature—supporting modifiers like “is:open author:danlamanna”—using PyParsing and the Django ORM.

Posted 19th June 2023 at 8:30 am

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