From: Mike Bayer <mike_mp@zzzcomputing.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:18:58 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: comment
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X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2057b86b2ac2cfcb354ac213fc997359089a3d4c;p=thirdparty%2Fsqlalchemy%2Fsqlalchemy.git

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diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/suite/test_results.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/suite/test_results.py
index ceb7e78289..87d85f6e6f 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/suite/test_results.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/suite/test_results.py
@@ -93,6 +93,13 @@ class RowFetchTest(fixtures.TablesTest):
 
 
     def test_row_w_scalar_select(self):
+        """test that a scalar select as a column is returned as such
+        and that type conversion works OK.
+
+        (this is half a SQLAlchemy Core test and half to catch database
+        backends that may have unusual behavior with scalar selects.)
+
+        """
         datetable = self.tables.has_dates
         s = select([datetable.alias('x').c.today]).as_scalar()
         s2 = select([datetable.c.id, s.label('somelabel')])