> Odd- this isn't the narrative docs Thanks for your clarification.
> You can use column attributes... > (http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/core/sqlelement.html#sqlalchemy.sql.expression.ColumnElement.desc) Would it help to add a few more descriptions (and links) to the section for the query method "order_by"? http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_1_0/orm/query.html#sqlalchemy.orm.query.Query.order_by > session.query(model.Foo).order_by(model.Foo.id.desc(). > model.Foo.id_b.asc()) Is the specification "desc()." really appropriate in this parameter list example? > There's also some sql expression in another package... > http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/core/sqlelement.html#sqlalchemy.sql.expression.desc Thanks for your links. > If you have a column the standard way is to just do `column.asc()` I find the detail interesting that the sort direction needs to be written as a method call instead of passing a corresponding parameter value. > Using the `desc(column)` syntax is really only necessary when using literal > sql > or very complex queries. I imagine that I will need this variant for my use case of sorting computed query fields, won't I? Regards, Markus -- 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.
