Do not rely on dicts.merge to change target
Also make dicts.merge actually not touch target. This is much cleaner
than modifying in place, especially since we assign the result of the
dicts.merge call to target most of the time anyway.
Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier
import re
# Valid query types (a dictionary is used for speedy lookups).
QUERY_TERMS = dict([(x, None) for x in (
'exact', 'iexact', 'contains', 'icontains', 'gt', 'gte', 'lt', 'lte', 'in',
'startswith', 'istartswith', 'endswith', 'iendswith', 'range', 'year',
'month', 'day', 'isnull', 'search', 'regex', 'iregex',
)])
# Size of each "chunk" for get_iterator calls.
# Larger values are slightly faster at the expense of more storage space.
GET_ITERATOR_CHUNK_SIZE = 100
# Separator used to split filter strings apart.
LOOKUP_SEP = '__'
# Constants to make looking up tuple values clearer.
# Join lists (indexes into the tuples that are values in the alias_map
# dictionary in the Query class).
TABLE_NAME = 0
RHS_ALIAS = 1
JOIN_TYPE = 2
LHS_ALIAS = 3
LHS_JOIN_COL = 4
RHS_JOIN_COL = 5
NULLABLE = 6
# How many results to expect from a cursor.execute call
MULTI = 'multi'
SINGLE = 'single'
ORDER_PATTERN = re.compile(r'\?|[-+]?[.\w]+$')
ORDER_DIR = {
'ASC': ('ASC', 'DESC'),
'DESC': ('DESC', 'ASC')}