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Python SQLAlchemy Basics Introduction to SQLAlchemy Querying the Movie Database

Filter not working

sqlalchemy import create_engine, Column, Integer, String
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker


engine = create_engine(‘sqlite:///movies.db’, echo=False)
Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
session = Session()
Base = declarative_base()


class Movie(Base):
    __tablename__ = ‘movies’

    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    movie_title = Column(String)
    genre = Column(String)

romance_movies = session.query(Movie).filter(Movie.genre == 'Romance')
models.py
from sqlalchemy import create_engine, Column, Integer, String
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker


engine = create_engine(sqlite:///movies.db, echo=False)
Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
session = Session()
Base = declarative_base()


class Movie(Base):
    __tablename__ = movies

    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    movie_title = Column(String)
    genre = Column(String)

romance_movies = session.query(Movie).filter(Movie.genre == 'Romance')

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points

Based on the Regex error shown on the Test Results tab, the challenge apparently doesn't like the "Movie." prefix or the spaces in the filter expression. You can change those to pass the challenge, but you might also want to report this as a bug to Support. (It might get you a "special Exterminator badge". :beetle:)

Thank you Steven Parker your a legend!!

```from sqlalchemy import create_engine, Column, Integer, String from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker

engine = create_engine(‘sqlite:///movies.db’, echo=False) Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine) session = Session() Base = declarative_base()

class Movie(Base): tablename = ‘movies’

id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
movie_title = Column(String)
genre = Column(String)

romance_movies=session.query(Movie).filter(Movie.genre=='Romance') ```