better error message for NoSuchColumnError, fix ticket #607

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 66eeb3a144dc7d6a47e18cab3ec23f415fc9972e..054557c0608c7b37663b640d76f14401bee8af3f 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 0.3.9
 - general
+    - better error message for NoSuchColumnError [ticket:607]
     - finally figured out how to get setuptools version in, available
       as sqlalchemy.__version__ [ticket:428]
 - ext

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py
index a59e578098e5e971a9d4722d95dacd0886364caa..82ec73f59841c718c88cadaadb6d4cedf8abb4ca 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py
@@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ class ResultProxy(object):
                     rec = self.__props[label]
                         
             if not "rec" in locals():
-                raise exceptions.NoSuchColumnError("Could not locate column in row for column '%s'" % (repr(key)))
+                raise exceptions.NoSuchColumnError("Could not locate column in row for column '%s'" % (str(key)))
 
             self.__key_cache[key] = rec
             return rec