SQLAlchemy ORDER BY DESCENDING?

How can I use ORDER BY descending in a SQLAlchemy query like the following?

This query works, but returns them in ascending order:

query = (model.Session.query(model.Entry)
        .join(model.ClassificationItem)
        .join(model.EnumerationValue)
        .filter_by(id=c.row.id)
        .order_by(model.Entry.amount) # This row :)
        )

If I try:

.order_by(desc(model.Entry.amount))

then I get: NameError: global name 'desc' is not defined.

Solution 1:

Just as an FYI, you can also specify those things as column attributes. For instance, I might have done:

.order_by(model.Entry.amount.desc())

This is handy since it avoids an import, and you can use it on other places such as in a relation definition, etc.

For more information, you can refer this SQLAlchemy 1.4 Documentation

Solution 2:

from sqlalchemy import desc
someselect.order_by(desc(table1.mycol))

Usage from @jpmc26

Solution 3:

One other thing you might do is:

.order_by("name desc")

This will result in: ORDER BY name desc. The disadvantage here is the explicit column name used in order by.