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[1.0.X] Fixed #9432 -- Revived documentation of ~Q usage.
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Backport of r9267 from trunk.


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malcolmt committed Oct 24, 2008
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Expand Up @@ -601,7 +601,11 @@ This is equivalent to the following SQL ``WHERE`` clause::
WHERE question LIKE 'Who%' OR question LIKE 'What%'

You can compose statements of arbitrary complexity by combining ``Q`` objects
with the ``&`` and ``|`` operators. You can also use parenthetical grouping.
with the ``&`` and ``|`` operators and use parenthetical grouping. Also, ``Q``
objects can be negated using the ``~`` operator, allowing for combined lookups
that combine both a normal query and a negated (``NOT``) query::

Q(question__startswith='Who') | ~Q(pub_date__year=2005)

Each lookup function that takes keyword-arguments (e.g. ``filter()``,
``exclude()``, ``get()``) can also be passed one or more ``Q`` objects as
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