On Jun 26, 2006, at 7:47 PM, Mike Bernson wrote: > I must be missing something. > > I have a dict of keys and values that I want to build a select > statement > from. > > > The dict is of the form > > dict['key1'] = value1 > dict['key2'] = value2 > dict['key3'] = value3 > > I want to build a select statement that has a where clause > > where key1 = value1 and key2 = value2 and key3 = value3 >
s = table.select(and_(*[table.c[k]==v for k, v in dict.iteritems()])) > > The other thing I would like to be able to do is build a select > statement for the primary key. I would like to be able to pass > some method a list of values for the primary key and have it build > the select statement. In some cases this is easy as the primary key > is just column. In other cases the primary key is a number of columns. > def pkselect(values): return table.select(and_(*[col==v for col, v in zip (table.primary_key, values)])) > If I can do the first things I can then do the second one but it is a > common enough case that it be easy to do (method) A specific method for either of these within the SA core would start feeling like a HumaneInterface to me (i.e. huge lists of functions, each one suiting a particular developers whim). better for people to master a smaller set of functions and build what they need. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sqlalchemy-users mailing list Sqlalchemy-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sqlalchemy-users