Getting COUNT from sqlalchemy

Question

I have:

res = db.engine.execute(\'select count(id) from sometable\')

The returned object is sqlalchemy.engine.result.ResultProxy

Answer 1

what you are asking for called unpacking, ResultProxy is an iterable, so we can do

# there will be single record
record, = db.engine.execute('select count(id) from sometable')
# this record consist of single value
count, = record