id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,pull_request,body,repo,type,active_lock_reason,performed_via_github_app,reactions,draft,state_reason 1868713944,I_kwDOCGYnMM5vYk_Y,588,`table.get(column=value)` option for retrieving things not by their primary key,9599,open,0,,,1,2023-08-28T00:41:23Z,2023-08-28T00:41:54Z,,OWNER,,"This came up working on this feature: - https://github.com/simonw/llm/pull/186 I have a table with this schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE [collections] ( [id] INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, [name] TEXT, [model] TEXT ); CREATE UNIQUE INDEX [idx_collections_name] ON [collections] ([name]); ``` So the primary key is an integer (because it's going to have a huge number of rows foreign key related to it, and I don't want to store a larger text value thousands of times), but there is a unique constraint on the `name` - that would be the primary key column if not for all of those foreign keys. Problem is, fetching the collection by name is actually pretty inconvenient. Fetch by numeric ID: ```python try: table[""collections""].get(1) except NotFoundError: # It doesn't exist ``` Fetching by name: ```python def get_collection(db, collection): rows = db[""collections""].rows_where(""name = ?"", [collection]) try: return next(rows) except StopIteration: raise NotFoundError(""Collection not found: {}"".format(collection)) ``` It would be neat if, for columns where we know that we should always get 0 or one result, we could do this instead: ```python try: collection = table[""collections""].get(name=""entries"") except NotFoundError: # It doesn't exist ``` The existing `.get()` method doesn't have any non-positional arguments, so using `**kwargs` like that should work: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/blob/1260bdc7bfe31c36c272572c6389125f8de6ef71/sqlite_utils/db.py#L1495",140912432,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/588/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,