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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/sqlalchemy/sql/expression.py | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/sql/expression.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/sql/expression.py index ec1d9c74c..2c1c047b5 100644 --- a/lib/sqlalchemy/sql/expression.py +++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/sql/expression.py @@ -3545,6 +3545,10 @@ class BinaryExpression(ColumnElement): def __init__(self, left, right, operator, type_=None, negate=None, modifiers=None): + # allow compatibility with libraries that + # refer to BinaryExpression directly and pass strings + if isinstance(operator, basestring): + operator = operators.custom_op(operator) self.left = _literal_as_text(left).self_group(against=operator) self.right = _literal_as_text(right).self_group(against=operator) self.operator = operator |