I'll see about adding a recipe to the SQLObject Community Doc site for this.
( https://sites.google.com/site/sqlobject/ )
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Petr Jakeš <petr.ja...@tpc.cz> wrote:
>
> To give context to the issue, I am building my own icecast2 broadcaster. I
>> want
>> to have an Auto DJ feature which will pick a random song from the
>> database which
>> hasn't recently been played plus some other criteria. It really doesn't
>> matter
>> which record i get back from the database, I just need one at random.
>>
>
> *Get the list of valid IDs from the remote database using the raw SQL
> command
> something like:*
>
> con = connectionForURI("firebird://yourUserName:yourPassword@serverAddress
> :3050/pat/to/database/database.file")
>
> validIDs= "SELECT ID FROM SONGS_TABLE where ......"
>
> returnedIDs = con.queryAll(validIDs)
>
> # you get the list of valid IDs, something like this: [(1,), (2,), (3,),
> (4,), (5,), (6,), (7,), (8,), (9,), (11,)]
>
> *than:*
>
> import random
> randomID = random.choice(returnedIDs)[0]
> randomSong = SongsTable.get(randomID)
>
> HTH
>
> Regards
>
> Petr
>
>
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