Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 06:26:53PM +0200, Olivier Ravard wrote:
>   
>> I use SQLObject for my project and I want to use a GROUP BY query.
>> But the folowing line does not work :
>>
>> Item.select(groupBy='name')
>>     
>
>    Think for a minute about the underlying SQL.
> Item.select()
>    runs the query
> SELECT * FROM item
>    and fills the list of object returning by the call with values of
> attributes from the table, according to the description of columns you have
> gave in the Item class:
>
> class Item(SQLObject):
>    name = StringCol()
>
>    Right? Well, now think about
> Item.select(groupBy='name')
>    It should generate the query
> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM item GROUP BY name.
>    Oops. Where from should come that COUNT()? May be you want AVG()? Or
> MAX()?
>    Where to put the resulting values? The Item class doesn't have any
> description for it.
>
>   
>> How can I make a GROUP BY query ?
>>     
>
>    using lower-level module SQLBuilder:
>
> from sqlobject.sqlbuilder import Select
> select = Select([Item.q.name], groupBy="name")
> results = connection.query(connection.sqlrepr(select))
>   
Thanks. It was what I am searching...
But when I run this part of code, it returns None !
> Oleg.
>   


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