Why is my query failing? Trying to apply sort order on GAE datastore entity

Question

    q = Institution_Table.all().run(batch_size=2000).order('name')

gives me the following error:

AttributeError: '_QueryIterator' object has no attribute 'order'

Answer 1

The example given in the docs shows that .order('name') is attached to a query.

In your example you are attaching it after the query has been run.

Try:

q = Institution_Table.all().order('name')
results = q.run()

Here: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/queries#Restrictions_on_Queries