I think the selling point of Pony ORM is that you can write variable and literal...

I think the selling point of Pony ORM is that you can write variable and literals instead of string.

Django:

    Item.objects.filter(price__gt=3)

Pony ORM:

    select(o for o in Item if o.price>3)

Peewee:

    Item.select().where(Item.price>3)

Kohana:

    $Item->where('price', '>', 3)->find();

You see, the __gt or '>' here is kind of stupid.