def _find_columns(clause):

    cols = util.column_set()
    traverse(clause, {}, {'column': cols.add})
    return cols


# there is some inconsistency here between the usage of
# inspect() vs. checking for Visitable and __clause_element__.
# Ideally all functions here would derive from inspect(),
# however the inspect() versions add significant callcount
# overhead for critical functions like _interpret_as_column_or_from().
# Generally, the column-based functions are more performance critical
# and are fine just checking for __clause_element__().  It is only
# _interpret_as_from() where we'd like to be able to receive ORM entities
# that have no defined namespace, hence inspect() is needed there.
locate Column objects within the given expression.
dataset/ETHPy150Open goFrendiAsgard/kokoropy/kokoropy/packages/sqlalchemy/sql/elements.py/_find_columns