You'll be looking at the code for a first time just once; you want to optimize for the guy who spends a nontrivial amount of time on code. Furthermore, ORM que

You'll be looking at the code for a first time just once; you want to optimize for the guy who spends a nontrivial amount of time on code. Furthermore, ORM queries a much more readable, and the OP's example is bad; Django ORM queries use keyword arguments all the time.