Using .aggregate() on a value introduced using .extra(select={…}) in a Django Query?

You could use a custom aggregate function to produce your query:

WEEK_FUNC = 'STRFTIME("%%%%W", %s)' # use 'WEEK(%s)' for mysql

class WeekCountAggregate(models.sql.aggregates.Aggregate):
    is_ordinal = True
    sql_function = 'WEEK' # unused
    sql_template = "COUNT(%s)" % (WEEK_FUNC.replace('%%', '%%%%') % '%(field)s')

class WeekCount(models.aggregates.Aggregate):
    name="Week"
    def add_to_query(self, query, alias, col, source, is_summary):
        query.aggregates[alias] = WeekCountAggregate(col, source=source, 
            is_summary=is_summary, **self.extra)


>>> game_objects.extra(select={'week': WEEK_FUNC % '"games_game"."date"'}).values('week').annotate(count=WeekCount('pk'))

But as this API is undocumented and already requires bits of raw SQL, you might be better off using a raw query.

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