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		luckystarr on April 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pony ORM - Use Pure Python to Speak to Your Data How does it translate generator expressions? Some kind of byte-code magic?

yangyang on April 19, 2013 | [–]

It appears to build an AST from the code object on the generator, and then translate to SQL.

https://github.com/ponyorm/pony/blob/orm/pony/orm/decompilin...

https://github.com/ponyorm/pony/blob/orm/pony/orm/asttransla...

amalashkevich on April 19, 2013 | | [–]

Pony gets the code object from a generator, decompiles it to a Python AST and then translates it to a SQL abstract tree.

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