Maybe just _selectable is the way to go.
On 7/7/06, Michael Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
uh, sure. how about __selectable__ though, whats one underscore ?On Jul 7, 2006, at 1:24 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
I had an idea for a selectable protocol for SA similar to Python's iterator protocol -- a _selectable_ method that returns a Selectable, similar to how __iter__ returns an iterator where relevant.
This could replace is_selectable and also isinstance calls, so instead of code like
if arg is not None and isinstance(arg, sql.Selectable):
return self.select_statement(arg, **kwargs)
else:
return self.select_whereclause(whereclause=arg, **kwargs)
you'd have something like
try:
s = arg._selectable_()
except AttributeError:
return self.select_whereclause (whereclause=arg, **kwargs)
else:
return self.select_statement(s, **kwargs)
Like __iter__, most _selectable_ methods would just return self, but this would allow things that aren't a subclass of Selectable yet know how to make/get one to interact with the rest of SA. Like, say, SqlSoup's reflected classes.
(It's also somewhat more pythonic to my way of thinking, but I know that some people don't like that word. :)
I count 10 isinstance calls like the above and 5 references to is_selectable so it looks feasible from here. Would you accept a patch for this, Michael?
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