On 12/20/09 13:31 , Igor Katson wrote:

> I want to increment a column by 1 with
> 
> UPDATE table SET column = column + 1 WHERE id = %(id)s,

This is covered here:
http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/06/sqlexpression.html

> however, when writing "instance.column += 1" in python, it translates it to
> 
> UPDATE table SET column = <OLD_VALUE> + 1

That's because instance.column returns the integer value. If you do
"table.c.column + 1", however, that will return a _BinaryExpression.

So, what you want, is something like

    table.update(where_clause, dict(column=table.c.column + 1)

Hope this helps.

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Alex Brasetvik

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