fluq 0.1.3

FLUent Queries - A set of utilities and an intuitive API for constructing SQL queries programmatically

FLUQ (FLUent Queries) - Python style API for heavy SQL users

FLUQ provides a set of utilities and an intuitive API for constructing SQL queries programmatically, making it easier to build, read, and maintain complex SQL statements.

Installation

pip install fluq

Usage

Fluq was built borrowing from its inspiring packages to write SQL from left to right. The package does not connect to data bases or run queries for the user, rather, it prevents users from having to create huge blobs of text that are hard to read, re-use and manage.

Where usually a query might look like this:

SELECT id -- starting from what columns we want
FROM db.schema.table1 -- but we should start from where we want them

The fluq way goes logically left-to-right:

from fluq.sql import *

query = table("db.schema.table1").select("id")

print(query.sql) # returns: SELECT id FROM db.schema.table1

The API:

Starting from tables: table method

Fluq allows you to start from sources

from fluq.sql import table

query = table("db.schema.table1") # this defines a Frame object
print(type(query)) 
# Output: <class 'fluq.frame.Frame'>

Frame has many methods, among the rest is the sql property that renders the SQL code to run the query.

print(query.sql)
# Output: SELECT * FROM db.schema.table1

Select specific columns

from fluq.sql import table, col

query = table("db.schema.table1").select("id", "name")

Or, by using the col method:

query = table("db.schema.table1").select(col("id"), col("name"))

By using col, we get back a Column object, that allows to perform multiple operations over columns among the rest we can give them a different alias:

query = table("db.schema.table1").select(
    col("id").as_("`customer id`"), 
    col("name").as_("`customer name`"))

print(query.sql)
# Output: SELECT id AS `customer id`, name AS `customer name` FROM db.schema.table1

Specifying columns and literals

• col - a method to represent a column by name
• lit - a method to represent primitives (str, bool, int, float) as SQL literals
• select - standalone method to select without a FROM clause (good for examples)

from fluq.sql import select, col, lit

query = select(col("a"))
print(type(query)) 
# Output: <class 'fluq.frame.Frame'>

print(query.sql)
# Output: SELECT a -- will result in an error over any db since "a" is not defined

Selecting literals using lit

from fluq.sql import select, lit

query = select(lit(2).as_("two"))

print(query.sql)
# Output: SELECT 2 AS two

Arithmetics and functions:

from fluq.sql import table, col, lit, functions as fn
from datetime import date

# create a literal with the current year
current_year = lit(date.today().year)

query = table("some.table").select(
    (current_year - col("year_joined")).as_("years_since_joined"),
    (col("orders")**2).as_("orders_squared"),
    col("sum_transactions")*lit(1-0.17).as_("sum_transactions_net"),
    fn.exp(3)
)

print(query.sql)
# Output: SELECT 2024 - year_joined AS years_since_joined, POWER( orders, 2 ) AS orders_squared, sum_transactions * 0.83, EXP( 3 ) FROM some.table

Logical operators: ==, >, >=, <>, <, <=, &, |:

from fluq.sql import table, col

query = table("db.customers").where(
    (col("date_joined") > '2024-01-01') &
    (col("salary") < 5000) &
    (col("address").is_not_null()) & 
    (col("country") == 'US') &
    (col("indutry").is_in('food', 'services'))
).select("id", "name", "address")

print(query.sql)
# Output: SELECT id, name, address FROM db.customers WHERE ( ( ( ( date_joined > '2024-01-01' ) AND ( salary < 5000 ) ) AND ( address IS NOT NULL ) ) AND ( country = 'US' ) ) AND ( indutry IN ( 'food', 'services' ) )

NOTE: the __eq__ magic method was 'kidnapped' in order to have a very python like approach. This is not void of potential issues. When comparing Column objects, use the _equals method instead of ==.

Inspiration and rationale

We wished to create a left-to-right API to write the huge SQL queries that sometimes dominate python code, without working with SQLAlchemy or spark which is a pain on its own

• Spark
• Polars

SQL flavour

Version 0.1.0 was built over BigQuery syntax, with the aim of supporting more flavours in future versions.

Contributing

Please be aware of the package dependency structure:

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file.

Contact

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