I appreciate the explanation.
> > > You can try to do .selectBy(**dict).filter(another_expression).
This looks like it is solving my problem; I appended an .orderBy('-date') to
the clause and that also seems to work well. Is there some documentation I
can review somewhere that enumerates the functions I can use on selects? The
methods are too magic to be approached by help(SelectResults) and
dir(SelectResults).
Thanks again! SQLObject is a truly excellent piece of software; I love it.
cs
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 08:39:39 Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:14:51AM -0500, Christopher Singley wrote:
> > > "Hint: how can you express the ineqality with a dict?"
> >
> > If you've got a suggestion, I'm all ears, but you'll have
> > to spell it out for the slow students in the class!
>
> .selectBy() is strictly oriented towards equality test. It's easy to
> pass a dictionary to .selectBy().
> When you need non-equality test one or more keys in your dictionary are
> special. But there is no way to mark these special keys in syntax like
> **dict. You know what keys are special but there is no way to express such
> knowledge with a dictionary. Hence you need to use another, non-dict-based
> approach.
>
> > > You can try to do .selectBy(**dict).filter(another_expression).
> >
> > Would the syntax be something like:
> > another_expression = 'Person.q.timeStamp <= datetime.date.today()'
>
> This is the preferred way.
>
> Oleg.
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