Cheers...

Hm, still @ quite the n00b stage... got this far
Build.join(ExternalBuild).distinct().count()

But when I try
Build.join(ExternalBuild, ExternalBuild.build_id == Build.id)

It says:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 1, in <lambda>
  File 
"c:\usr\python25\lib\site-packages\SQLAlchemy-0.5.2-py2.5.egg\sqlalchemy\util.py",
 line 212, in go
    return fn(*args, **kw)
  File 
"c:\usr\python25\lib\site-packages\SQLAlchemy-0.5.2-py2.5.egg\sqlalchemy\orm\query.py",
 line 873, in join
    return self.__join(props, outerjoin=False, create_aliases=aliased, 
from_joinpoint=from_joinpoint)
  File "<string>", line 1, in <lambda>
  File 
"c:\usr\python25\lib\site-packages\SQLAlchemy-0.5.2-py2.5.egg\sqlalchemy\orm\query.py",
 line 52, in generate
    fn(self, *args[1:], **kw)
  File 
"c:\usr\python25\lib\site-packages\SQLAlchemy-0.5.2-py2.5.egg\sqlalchemy\orm\query.py",
 line 1071, in __join
    clause = orm_join(clause, right_entity, onclause, isouter=outerjoin, 
join_to_left=join_to_left)
  File 
"c:\usr\python25\lib\site-packages\SQLAlchemy-0.5.2-py2.5.egg\sqlalchemy\orm\util.py",
 line 432, in join
    return _ORMJoin(left, right, onclause, isouter, join_to_left)
  File 
"c:\usr\python25\lib\site-packages\SQLAlchemy-0.5.2-py2.5.egg\sqlalchemy\orm\util.py",
 line 409, in __init__
    expression.Join.__init__(self, left, right, onclause, isouter)
  File 
"c:\usr\python25\lib\site-packages\SQLAlchemy-0.5.2-py2.5.egg\sqlalchemy\sql\expression.py",
 line 2479, in __init
__
    self.right = _selectable(right).self_group()
  File 
"c:\usr\python25\lib\site-packages\SQLAlchemy-0.5.2-py2.5.egg\sqlalchemy\sql\expression.py",
 line 968, in _select
able
    raise exc.ArgumentError("Object %r is not a Selectable and does not 
implement `__selectable__()`" % element)
ArgumentError: Object <sqlalchemy.sql.expression._BinaryExpression object at 
0x01CB8B30> is not a Selectable and does no
t implement `__selectable__()`







----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Bayer <mike...@zzzcomputing.com>
To: sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 12:58:03 AM
Subject: [sqlalchemy] Re: Using count with distinct?


use this:

http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/05/reference/sqlalchemy/expressions.html#sqlalchemy.sql.expression.distinct


On Feb 2, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Stuart Axon wrote:

>
> I've got a fairly simple query in postgres... any idea how I do this  
> in sqlalchemy - I couldn't find any info about this
>
> select
>    count(distinct device_id)
> from
>    externalbuild
> join
>    build
> on
>    build.id = externalbuild.build_id
> where
>    external_id = '1'
> and not
>    is_known
>
>
> BTW, the recent work looks good - might even help me convert my  
> other queries from sql... I thought this one
> was the simplest, but failed here too :-\
>
>
>
>
>
> >




      

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