The ORM takes a whole lot of pain out of updates as well. Filtering also work fairly nicely for simple stuff, as putting conditions in a dictionary and passing

The ORM takes a whole lot of pain out of updates as well. Filtering also work fairly nicely for simple stuff, as putting conditions in a dictionary and passing it to filter(kwargs) is a lot nicer than messing about with SQL strings. I agree that the ORM is limited if you want moderately complex queries though.