Question

I’m new to sqlalchemy and could use some help.
I’m trying to write a small application for which i have to dynamically change a select-statement. So I do s = select([files]), and then i add filters by s = s.where(files.c.createtime.between(val1, val2)).
This works great, but only with an AND-conjunction.
So, when I want to have all entries with createtime (between 1.1.2009 and 1.2.2009) OR createtime == 5.2.2009, I got the problem that i don’t know how to achieve this with different filter-calls. Because of the programs logic it’s not possible to use s= s.where(_or(files.c.createtime.between(val1, val2), files.c.createtime == DateTime('2009-02-01')))

Thanks in advance,
Christof

Answer 1

You can build or clauses dynamically from lists:

clauses = []
if cond1:
    clauses.append(files.c.createtime.between(val1, val2))
if cond2:
    clauses.append(files.c.createtime == DateTime('2009-02-01'))
if clauses:
    s = s.where(or_(*clauses))