From 84e813aee4b47edb5220bc76083525d1ac4e45ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Bank <sebastian.bank@uni-leipzig.de>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:37:21 +0200
Subject: add ClauseElement.cast() shortcut-method

---
 lib/sqlalchemy/sql/elements.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

(limited to 'lib/sqlalchemy/sql/elements.py')

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/sql/elements.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/sql/elements.py
index 27ecce2b0..5df736ac7 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/sql/elements.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/sql/elements.py
@@ -837,6 +837,13 @@ class ColumnElement(operators.ColumnOperators, ClauseElement):
         else:
             return False
 
+    def cast(self, type_):
+        """Produce a type cast, i.e. ``CAST(<expression> AS <type>)``.
+
+        This is a shortcut to the :func:`.cast` function.
+        """
+        return Cast(self, type_)
+
     def label(self, name):
         """Produce a column label, i.e. ``<columnname> AS <name>``.
 
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