title: How do I tell django to not escape % and _ in a query
body: <p>I want to be able to use wildcards in my django queries used for searching. However as the documentation says:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Entry.objects.filter(headline__contains='%')</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Will result in SQL that looks something like this:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>SELECT ... WHERE headline LIKE '%\%%';</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>How do I tell django to not escape % and _ in a query. Or is there another way to implement wildcard search in django (apart from writing the sql directly)?</p>