whatever_query.first()
do you really want an exception raised if no results are found and write

try:
     whatever_query.one()
except:
     didn't find anything

instead of

if not whatever_query.first():
    didn't find anything 


?

On Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 4:14:15 AM UTC+1, Encompass solutions wrote:
>
> Yesterday, a fellow developer was suprised we didn't have .one in web2py.
> The idea is like this...
>
> http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/orm/query.html#sqlalchemy.orm.query.Query.one
> be sure to also look at one or none.
> Should we add this to the DAL?  I think it may come in handy.  Or should 
> we always just check the length.
> I wonder what else SQLalchemy has the DAL could use.
> BR,
> Jason Brower
>

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