as replied on the issue I'd rather improve the behavior.

On Wed, Jul 13, 2022, at 12:29 PM, Peter Harrison wrote:
> Thanks Mike,
> 
> The examples on the documentation page only show how to work with strings. 
> Could this be updated? https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/core/sqlelement.html
> 
> Specifically:
>  1. ColumnOperators.endswith()
>  2. ColumnOperators.contains()
>  3. ColumnOperators.like()
>  4. ColumnOperators.startswith()
> I created this issue with suggested text 
> https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/issues/8253
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 6:09 AM Mike Bayer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> __
>> you're sending a Python bytestring as the expression for which there's no 
>> explicit support for operators like concat, contains, etc.     
>> 
>> the solution is to build the SQL composition directly using func.concat , or 
>> just building up the LIKE expression in Python, so that there's no ambiguity 
>> what's being asked for.
>> 
>> hostname = 'CHJWNNEK'
>> statement = select(MacIp.hostname).where(
>>     MacIp.hostname.like(func.concat(func.concat('%', hostname.encode()), 
>> '%'))
>> )
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2022, at 2:29 AM, Peter Harrison wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I'm having an issue with a "contains" query on a VARBINARY column. It 
>>> appears the statement compiles incorrectly, or I am not using SQLAlchemy 
>>> correctly.
>>> 
>>> I know the MySQL CLI query that works correctly as you will see below, but 
>>> I don't know how to get it. The CLI query is only one character different 
>>> from the one that SQLAlchemy creates.
>>> 
>>> I've spent a few days googling this with no luck.
>>> 
>>> Any assistance with my syntax would be greatly appreciated.
>>> 
>>> _PIP packages_
>>> **
>>> *PyMySQL*==1.0.2
>>> SQL*Alchemy*==1.4.39
>>> 
>>> _Code Snippet_
>>> 
>>> hostname = 'CHJWNNEK'
>>> statement = select(MacIp.hostname).where(
>>>         MacIp.hostname.contains(hostname.encode()
>>>     )
>>> 
>>> _Issue_
>>> 
>>> The SQLAlchemy example compiles to this when adding this argument to the 
>>> compile function *"compile_kwargs={'literal_binds': True}"*:
>>> 
>>> SELECT smap_macip.hostname 
>>> FROM smap_macip 
>>> WHERE (smap_macip.hostname LIKE concat('%%' + 'CHJWNNEK', '%%'))
>>> 
>>> This gives no results, however it works when I do the query from the CLI 
>>> like this. ('+' replaced with ',')  
>>> 
>>> SELECT smap_macip.hostname 
>>> FROM smap_macip 
>>> WHERE (smap_macip.hostname LIKE concat(*'%%', 'CHJWNNEK', '%%'*))
>>> 
>>> 
>>> _Column Contents_
>>> 
>>> select hostname from smap_macip; 
>>> +------------+ 
>>> | hostname   | 
>>> +------------+ 
>>> | TVUPQBAZJX | 
>>> | *_CHJWNNEKYE_* | 
>>> | LODFHBAWVT | 
>>> | QMQRDNJJPV | 
>>> | ICHGULIMUU | 
>>> | AMXHISKNVT | 
>>> +------------+
>>> 
>>> _Table Definition_
>>> 
>>> class MacIp(BASE):
>>>     """Database table definition."""
>>> 
>>>     __tablename__ = 'smap_macip'
>>>     __table_args__ = (
>>>         UniqueConstraint('idx_device', 'ip_', 'idx_mac'),
>>>         {'mysql_engine': 'InnoDB'}
>>>     )
>>> 
>>>     idx_macip = Column(
>>>         BIGINT(20, unsigned=True), primary_key=True, unique=True)
>>>     idx_device = Column(
>>>         ForeignKey('smap_device.idx_device'),
>>>         nullable=False, index=True, default=1, server_default=text('1'))
>>>     idx_mac = Column(
>>>         ForeignKey('smap_mac.idx_mac'),
>>>         nullable=False, index=True, default=1, server_default=text('1'))
>>>     ip_ = Column(VARBINARY(256), nullable=True, default=Null)
>>>     hostname = Column(VARBINARY(256), nullable=True, default=Null)
>>>     type = Column(BIGINT(unsigned=True), nullable=True, default=Null)
>>>     enabled = Column(BIT(1), default=1)
>>>     ts_modified = Column(
>>>         DateTime, nullable=False,
>>>         default=datetime.datetime.utcnow, onupdate=datetime.datetime.now)
>>>     ts_created = Column(
>>>         DateTime, nullable=False, default=datetime.datetime.utcnow)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Peter
>>> 
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