On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Ladislav Lenart <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Suppose I have the following query:
>
> def people_older_than(age):
> q = session.query(Person).order_by(Person.name)
> q = q.filter(Person.age > age)
> return q
>
> It returns a subset of Person instances. How can I augment the query so it
> returns only their count? I.e.:
>
> def number_of_people_older_than(age)
> q = people_older_than(21)
> q_count = q # Apply some magic here.
> return q_count.scalar()
>
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Ladislav Lenart
>
I don't think any magic is required. Does this work for you:
def number_of_people_older_than(age)
q = people_older_than(age)
return q.count()
See also http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_7/orm/tutorial.html#counting
Simon
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