How can I use ORDER BY descending in a SQLAlchemy query like the following? This query works, but returns them in ascending order: query = (model.Session.query(model.Entry) .join(model.ClassificationItem) .join(model.EnumerationValue) .filter_by(id=c.row.id) .order_by(model.Entry.amount) # This row :) ) If I try: .order_by(desc(model.Entry.amount)) then I get: NameError: global name 'desc' is not