What does Django-filter return?

Nope. Django filters operate at the database level , generating SQL. To filter based on Python properties, you have to load the object into Python to evaluate the property–and at that point, you’ve already done all the work to load it.

Django-filter is a generic, reusable application to alleviate writing some of the more mundane bits of view code. Specifically, it allows users to filter down a queryset based on a model’s fields, displaying the form to let them do this .

Filtering records using the filter() method Django provides a filter() method which returns a subset of data . It accepts field names as keyword arguments and returns a QuerySet object. As database has only one record where name is ‘tom’ , the QuerySet object contains only a single record.