On Oct 20, 6:24 pm, Nick Sabalausky <seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com> wrote: > Hi, I'm fairly new to Python, and I'm trying to figure out how to use > SQLAlchemy to connect to a MySQL DB and use table reflection to set up > SQLAlchemy's tables. But the SQLAlchemy documentation is gigantic and > frankly kinda making my head spin, so I'm having trouble even finding > any information on how to use its table reflection, mostly just that it > exists and *can* be done, but not so much "how". My web searching has > just been turning up examples of SQLite and manually describing the > tables in Python and having SQLAlchemy create the tables, which isn't > what I'm looking for. > > Is there a simple way to do this somehow? To just connect to a MySQL DB > and use table reflection?
i'm not brave enough to dig too deeply into SQLAlchemy, but maybe this will help? : http://kashififtikhar.blogspot.com/2010/07/using-sqlalchemy-reflection-with-pylons.html that came up from googling "sqlalchemy table reflection tutorial". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
