- same as [ticket:1019] but repaired the non-labeled use case

      [ticket:1022]

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py
index d7c7cebaa..583a02763 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py
@@ -1481,13 +1481,12 @@ class ResultProxy(object):
                 rec = props[key]
             except KeyError:
                 # fallback for targeting a ColumnElement to a textual expression
-                # it would be nice to get rid of this but we make use of it in the case where
-                # you say something like query.options(contains_alias('fooalias')) - the matching
-                # is done on strings
+                # this is a rare use case which only occurs when matching text()
+                # constructs to ColumnElements
                 if isinstance(key, expression.ColumnElement):
                     if key._label and key._label.lower() in props:
                         return props[key._label.lower()]
-                    elif key.name.lower() in props:
+                    elif hasattr(key, 'name') and key.name.lower() in props:
                         return props[key.name.lower()]
                 raise exceptions.NoSuchColumnError("Could not locate column in row for column '%s'" % (str(key)))