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I have the following object result from query set on a model as follow:

ddd = Post_Sub_Category.objects.filter(
 category_name__category_name__iexact=dd
).values_list('sub_category_name', flat=True)

the query set I obtained:

<QuerySet ['car', 'spare parts', 'truck', 'motor cycle']>

then tried:

print(ddd.values('sub_category_name'))

I obtained the following result:

<QuerySet [
 <Post_Sub_Category: car>,
 <Post_Sub_Category: spare parts>,
 <Post_Sub_Category: truck>,
 <Post_Sub_Category: motor cycle>
]

How to access the values only and make list of them as string:

['car','spare parts','truck','motor cycle'].

the first query set seems that it gave me what I want. However, When I use following if statement. it does not executed:

if 'car' in ddd:
 # do some thing 

as you can see car should be in the list. so, I could not understand why the if statement has not been executed.

any help or suggestion?

I think you might need to index that. The values list actually looks like it returns a list. Can you try:

try: 
 ddd = ddd[0]
except IndexError: 
 # Catch index error
 pass 

if 'car' in ddd:
 # do some thing 

If that doesn't work, try explicitly converting your QuerySetList to a regular ole list, as in this question, like this:

ddd = list(ddd)

Also, this looks a little strange to me: category_name__category_name__iexact=dd. Posting your corresponding models would be helpful.