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Almost there..
members.filter(**{'string__contains': 'search_string'})
To understand what it’s doing, google around : )
Understanding kwargs in Python
** expands dictionary key/value pairs to keyword argument – value pairs.
To adapt your example to the solution:
variable_column = 'name'
search_type = 'contains'
filter = variable_column + '__' + search_type
info=members.filter(**{ filter: search_string })
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Syntax:
model_name.objects.filter(column_name='value')
Ex: In my scenario, I wanted to find out all records with status completed from the Student table.
Student.objects.filter(status="completed")
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