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title: Expression
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summary: Represents filter expressions for the query system.
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module: lektor.db
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type: class
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body:
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Expressions are used to filter down [Query :ref](../query/) objects. They
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can be passed to the [filter :ref](../query/filter/) function in particular.
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The most basic expression is created by accessing the [F :ref](../f/) object
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which will return an expression that points to a field. Further manipulation
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of it can create more expressive expressions. `F.name` literally just means
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that a field by that name exists and is set to a value.
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The query syntax is mostly the same in Python as well as in the Jinja 2
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templates, the main difference are [and :ref](../and/) and [or :ref](../or/).
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## Example
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```pycon
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>>> p.children.filter((F.name == 'foo') | (F.name == 'bar')).all()
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[<Page model=u'page' id=u'bar'>, <Page model=u'page' id=u'foo'>]
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```
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