say you want to filter on the 'field' (field would be a string representing the name of the field) on objects of class == Klass
field_attr = getattr(Klass, field) would give you the instrumented attribute then Session.query(Klass).filter(field_attr == searchString) or Session.query(Klass).filter(field_attr.endswith(searchString)) would run HTH NiL -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sqlalchemy/-/DWEguyVv4dIJ. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en.