On Aug 26, 2013, at 11:14 AM, lars van gemerden <l...@rational-it.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This might be a bit of a stretch but here it goes:
> 
> Say that i have a lambda function that takes a mapped object and teturns 
> whether it is valid; e.g:
> 
>     lambda person: person.age > 17 or person.length > 1.75
> 
> is it possible to use this method to perform an sqla query on the database? 
> Perhaps by using hybrid_method?
> 
> Cheers, Lars
> 
> PS: this might seem strange question, but it would save me a lot of work 
> and/or would make my internal and user interfaces a lot more consistent. 
> 
> PPS: i do also have a string representation of the lambda functions, if that 
> helps


I'm not sure if you need these to remain as lambdas, sure you can just pass it 
to a hybrid_method:

class MyClass(Base):
    # ....

   @hybrid_method
   def run_compare(self, fn, *args):
        return fn(*args)


query(MyClass).filter(MyClass.run_compare(some_lambda, some_other_object))





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