> Well, I don't really see the connection between .scalar() and .list(),
> other than they are kind of antonyms, but FWIW I always thought that .list()
> was an odd duck anyway, seeing as how the arguably more Pythonic list(query)
> works fine.
(expanding on this a bit)
More generally, it's the iterative nature of a query object that makes a lot
of the .first() and so on more semantic sugar than anything else anyway.
I'll routinely write things like:
for row in query:
process(row)
or
results = [process(r) for r in query]
instead of:
results = query.list()
for row in results:
process(row)
I would even be OK with losing all the .select() and .first() and etc.
completely and deal with queries using a library of function STL-like
first-order functions like
first(query)
one(query)
etc.
so color me radical, I guess.
Rick
On 6/4/07, Michael Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jun 4, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Rick Morrison wrote:
> >
> > > The use of scalar() here seems out of place with both the common CS
> > > usage of the word (e.g. scalar == single-valued), and the use of
> > > scalar() in the SQL layer. Single row results in the ORM are rows,
> > > not a single datatype. It's another potential point of confusion,
> > > like the ORM .select() is/was.
> > >
> > > I would say drop scalar() in the ORM namespace, and for single-row
> > > results, use
> > >
> > > .first() -- returns first row
> > > .one() -- returns first row, raise exception if more than one result
> > >
> > >
> >
> > then we sort of have to rename list() to be all().
> >
> > its all fine with me if everyone out there doesnt mind changing their
> > code by the time 0.5 comes out....
> >
> >
> > > >
> >
>
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