Package pydo :: Module multifetch
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Module pydo.multifetch

Function Summary
  fetch(resultSpec, sqlTemplate, *values, **kwargs)
a method that executes sql and returns rows of tuples of PyDO objects and scalar values, ordered according to a result set specification.

Function Details

fetch(resultSpec, sqlTemplate, *values, **kwargs)

a method that executes sql and returns rows of tuples of PyDO
objects and scalar values, ordered according to a result set
specification.

resultSpec is a list that may contain:

  * PyDO classes;
  
  * 2-tuples of (PyDO class, alias string), which indicate that
    the table represented by the PyDO class is to be referenced by
    the given alias;

  * strings, which represent arbitrary SQL expressions that may
    occur in a SQL column-list specification.

sqlTemplate is a string that may contain interpolation variables
in the style of string.Template.  In particular, two variables are
supplied to this template automatically:

  $COLUMNS -- a list of columns computed from the supplied resultSpec;

  $TABLES -- a list of tables similarly computed.

Additional interpolation variables may be passed in as keyword
arguments.  Bind variables to the SQL may also be passed in,
through positional arguments; if there is only one positional
argument, and it is a dictionary, it will be used instead of a
list of values, under the assumption that either the 'named' or
'pyformat' paramstyle is being used.

For each element E in the resultSpec, the result row contains one
element F.  If E is a PyDO class, F will either be an instance of
E, or, if all its corresponding columns were null for that row and
E has a uniqueness constraint (which in PyDO is implicitly a not
null constraint), None.  If E is a string, F will be whatever the
cursor returned for that column.

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