I've just discovered that some tinyint (8-bit) fields have had their values limited to 0 and 1 regardless of actual value supplied. Digging through the documentation, I've learned that when MySQL tables are reflected, tinyint(1) fields are processed as booleans.
I did not find emails from others howling in pain, so I suppose most people are either happy with this behavior or unaffected. I understand why a bool column definition would be mapped to tinyint(1). However, doing the reverse, mapping tinyint(1) to bool, discards bits that MySQL would not discard. For me this was a misfeature. I would think that supplying bools to an integer field would work OK. In python 2 + True == 3. So people using booleans should not have too much difficulty, would they? Is there any chance you'd consider autoloading tinyint(1) as an integer field? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalch...@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.
