you can stick order_by into the ManyToMany, OneToMany, etc....none of it should be processed until the tables exist in the MetaData and are therefore locatable via string....
On Jun 20, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Charles Duffy wrote: > Michael Bayer wrote: >> thats not very hard. when the activemapper turns its values into a >> Mapper/Table, it has to create the Table first; before the order_by >> property is needed. so the table is there with which to get the >> Column >> from. > > That works for the mapper's sort_by attribute, but not when we're > applying the sort_by attribute to references -- those references > may be > to a different table. > > > _______________________________________________ > Sqlalchemy-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sqlalchemy-users _______________________________________________ Sqlalchemy-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sqlalchemy-users

