[PEAK] Progress on peak.schema

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:03 AM 3/1/05 +0200, Niki Spahiev wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>[..]
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>>Anyway, here's a couple of ways to express the same simple query using 
>>the "bulletins" example schema::
>>     aUser = ws.groupBy(User.loginId)['joe']
>>     aUser = ws[User.loginId.eq('joe')]
>
>Has ws.groupBy any connection to SQL group by? If not it's confusing.

Some.  Actually, I just realized that the above is wrong, it should be:

     aUser, = ws.groupBy(User.loginId)['joe']

Because groupBy returns a mapping whose values are sets.  That is, it's a 
mapping keyed by the specified keys, with values being the sets of objects 
matching the corresponding keys.  So this prints all product categories, 
each with its average price::

     for category, products in ws[Product].groupBy(Product.category).items():
         print category.name, sum(p.price for p in products)/len(products)

Although in the long run there will be a way to do such a report directly 
in the query language.

Anyway, do you have an alternate suggestion for the operation's name?