Retrieving raw tuples / dictionaries

Sometimes you do not need the overhead of creating model instances and simply want to iterate over the row tuples. To do this, call SelectQuery.tuples() or RawQuery.tuples():

stats = Stat.select(Stat.url, fn.Count(Stat.url)).group_by(Stat.url).tuples()

# iterate over a list of 2-tuples containing the url and count

for stat_url, stat_count in stats:

    print stat_url, stat_count

Similarly, you can return the rows from the cursor as dictionaries using SelectQuery.dicts() or RawQuery.dicts():

stats = Stat.select(Stat.url, fn.Count(Stat.url).alias('ct')).group_by(Stat.url).dicts()

# iterate over a list of 2-tuples containing the url and count

for stat in stats:

    print stat['url'], stat['ct']