Re: [sqlalchemy] Storing Nested Lists
What database are you using? Postgres (and possibly others) support an array type. On 04/25/2010 02:58 PM, greg wrote: Hi All, I'm new to sqlalchemy. I've been reading the documentation and group archives, but can't really find an answer to my question. I suspect it's a question of terminology, and that I don't really know the term for what I'm looking for. Can I map a nested list to one column, and have my nested list returned to me intact? A simple example is a list like: ['a','b','c', ['x','y','z',['m','n','o']]] If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd much appreciate it. Thanks. -- David Gardner Pipeline Tools Programmer Jim Henson Creature Shop dgard...@creatureshop.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sqlalchemy group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalch...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en.
RE: [sqlalchemy] Storing Nested Lists
-Original Message- From: sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com [mailto:sqlalch...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of greg Sent: 25 April 2010 22:59 To: sqlalchemy Subject: [sqlalchemy] Storing Nested Lists Hi All, I'm new to sqlalchemy. I've been reading the documentation and group archives, but can't really find an answer to my question. I suspect it's a question of terminology, and that I don't really know the term for what I'm looking for. Can I map a nested list to one column, and have my nested list returned to me intact? A simple example is a list like: ['a','b','c', ['x','y','z',['m','n','o']]] If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd much appreciate it. Thanks. If you make the column a PickleType: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/reference/sqlalchemy/types.html#sqlalchem y.types.PickleType ...it should behave as you want. Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sqlalchemy group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalch...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en.
