Select as in sqlalchemy

Question

I want to do something like this:

select username, userid, \'user\' as new_column  from  users_table.

The columns of the table can be selec

Answer 1

use this: users_table.c.userid.label('NewColumn')

i.e.,

query = select([users_table.c.username, users_table.c.userid.label('NewColumn')])

evaluates to:

SELECT username , userid as NewColumn From MyTable;