the .any() and .has() operators use a correlated EXISTS query, so no JOIN is needed (I'd probably guess LINQ does the same, actually).
If you're trying to say something like Job.dependencies, then "Job.dependencies" is a relationship() in that case, if it's many-to-many that doesn't really matter, the any() operator knows how to work with many-to-many that is correctly configured. Here's a complete example: from sqlalchemy import * from sqlalchemy.orm import * from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base, declared_attr from sqlalchemy import event Base = declarative_base() # many-to-many association table JobDependency = Table('job_dependency', Base.metadata, Column('jobId', Integer, ForeignKey('job.id'), primary_key=True), Column('dependsOnJobId', Integer, ForeignKey('job.id'), primary_key=True) ) class Job(Base): __tablename__ = 'job' id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True) status = Column(String(20), default='queued', nullable=False) dependencies = relationship(lambda: Job, secondary=JobDependency, primaryjoin=id==JobDependency.c.jobId, secondaryjoin=id==JobDependency.c.dependsOnJobId, backref='dependencyOf') e = create_engine("sqlite://", echo='debug') Base.metadata.create_all(e) s = Session(e) j1 = Job(status='queued', dependencies=[Job(status='done'), Job(status='done')]) j2 = Job(status='queued', dependencies=[Job(status='inprogress')]) s.add_all([j1, j2]) jobs = s.query(Job).\ filter(Job.status == 'queued').\ filter(~Job.dependencies.any(Job.status != 'done')).all() assert jobs == [j1] On Apr 18, 2014, at 5:20 AM, Maik Riechert <maik.riech...@arcor.de> wrote: > > query(Job).filter(Job.status == > 'queued').filter(~Job.dependencies.any(Dependency.status != 'done')) > > > One more thing. Dependency doesn't exist as a class. Job.dependencies is a > many-to-many association. That's why you probably have to use aliases to > refer to the status of the dependency Job. I just couldn't get it to work > though. The basic model: > > # many-to-many association table > JobDependency = Table('job_dependency', Base.metadata, > Column('jobId', Integer, ForeignKey('job.id'), primary_key=True), > Column('dependsOnJobId', Integer, ForeignKey('job.id'), primary_key=True) > ) > > class Job(Base): > __tablename__ = 'job' > > id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True) > status = Column(String(20), default='queued', nullable=False) > > dependencies = relationship(lambda: Job, > secondary=JobDependency, > primaryjoin=id==JobDependency.c.jobId, > > secondaryjoin=id==JobDependency.c.dependsOnJobId, > backref='dependencyOf') > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sqlalchemy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.