How do I select literal values in an sqlalchemy query?

Question

I have a query which looks like this:

query = session.query(Item) \\
    .filter(Item.company_id == company_id) \\
    .order_by(Item.id)

I

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comments of the accepted answer there's a "shorthand" for bindparam() that alleviates the need to come up with a name for the literal bindparam, literal():

Return a literal clause, bound to a bind parameter.

So one does not have to write

session.query(Item, bindparam("zero", 0).label("subscribed"))

but just

session.query(Item, literal(0).label("subscribed"))

without having to worry about quoting etc., if passing strings or such.