Question

I’ve updated SQLAlchemy to 0.6 but it broke everything. I’ve noticed it returns tuple not a dictionary anymore. Here’s a sample query:

query = session.query(User.id, User.username, User.email).filter(and_(User.id == id, User.username == username)).limit(1)
result = session.execute(query).fetchone()

This piece of code used to return a dictionary in 0.5.

My question is how can I return a dictionary?

Answer 1

This should work:
dict(zip(['id','username','email'],result)) (or you could use a dictionary comprehension if you’re on Python 3.x).

Also, you don’t need to call session.execute on a session.query object. You’ll want to use the .one() method on it instead. This also obviates the need for the .limit(1) call hanging off the end of your query.