I'm not sure if this will be helpful, but I found the types decorators very useful :
http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/core/types.html#typedecorator-recipes You can basically keep a list() in your instances and do something when you want to save it in the database (such as saving them as a comma separated string, or in json format...) Evertime you "rebuild" an instance from the database you'll get a list() and everytime you serialize in the datbase you can make that list be a comma separated string (or json) 2011/9/2 Sebastian Elsner <sebast...@risefx.com>: > Hello, > > I want to serialize a python list, which by convention can only contain > strings and save it to mysql database in on column. I was thinking about an > unicode column and an attribute event which just does a str(list) for saving > and a eval(string) for access. I am not sure though if this is a good > method, or if there even is a buildin method. > > Thanks for your suggestions! > > Sebastian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sqlalchemy" group. > To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en.
