Werner, Thank you for your response, very kind of you. This looks to be more what I'm looking for, after a quick test it seems that it is now applying the limit at the SQL level which is definitly a good thing.
Where abouts in the documentation did you find that? Look here: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/05/ormtutorial.html is seems to reccomend the same method as reccomended by the first repsonder, is that a fault in the docs perhaps? The next challegne I've noticed with using Limit() is that it doesnt appear to return an array of objects, but instead, a query object, so when I try and perform an evaluation on it like so: if len(the_objects): I get an error which states: TypeError: object of type 'Query' has no len() Why is this? Does using Limit() mean that we're returning query objects instead of the array of objects I was getting before? Many thanks, Heston On Sep 24, 4:27 pm, "Werner F. Bruhin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heston, > > Heston James wrote: > > Hi, > > > Thanks for the response, that gave me a good foot in the door to this. > > I've now appened my existing query with. > > > .order_by('myobject.created')[:1000] > > Just tried this on a simple example: > > query = query.limit(500) > > Quote from doc for 0.5rc1: > > *def limit(/self/, /limit/)* > > Apply a LIMIT to the query and return the newly resulting Query. > > *def offset(/self/, /offset/)* > > Apply an OFFSET to the query and return the newly resulting Query. > > *def slice(/self/, /start/, /stop/)* > > apply LIMIT/OFFSET to the Query based on a range and return the newly > resulting Query. > > Werner --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
