Hi,

Can't you escape the sequence by adding another %, so that the line becomes:

q=e.text("select * from some_table where some_field like '%%a word%%'")

Cheers,

Nick

Dennis Muhlestein wrote:
> I'm trying to create a query that uses the like operand to search a field.
>
> example:
>
>  e=create_engine(.....
>  q=e.text("select * from some_table where some_field like '%a word%'")
>  q.execute()
>
> I get this:
> sqlalchemy.exceptions.SQLError: (TypeError) unindexable object ....
>
> It works without the % of course, but I'm not sure how to delimit that
> query so sqlalchemy doesn't break.
>
> Thoughs?  Help?
> Thanks
> -Dennis
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