Re: [SQLObject] fetch instance using column other than ID

[Luke O. <lu...@me...>]

Sounds like you might be looking for the alternateID=True argument for columns:

  email = StringCol(alternateID=True)

will add an access method to Person so that:

user = Person.byEmail('ab...@xy...')

will work.

- Luke

Quoting charles brandt <li...@st...>:
> user = Person.select(Person.q.email=="ab...@xy...", connection=req.conn)[0]
>
> but that seems rather unintuitive compared to Person(10) (or Person.get(10)
> now).