Thanks. I have it working in SQL expression language, using text in
execute(). For better modularity and scalabililty, I will probably
move it over to using the select(), join(), etc. functions that are
built in.

On Nov 7, 5:26 pm, "Rick Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One of the reasons that Query.select() is deprecated is that the way it was
> named led to this kind of confusion.
>
> The Query() class is used for ORM operations, and when it's used as mapped
> against a table, it's going to give you all the columns from the table by
> default. There are ways of defining the table mapper to only get one column,
> but I suspect that you are really barking up the wrong tree, and want to use
> the non-ORM or "SQL expression" part of SqlAlchemy.
>
> It's that library that Barry was referring to.
> Using that library, it's going to be really easy to specify only the
> columns that you want, and apply things like DISTINCT.
> Read the docs on SQL expressions and try what he's suggesting.


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