Aha, thanks again! :)

Arve

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:55 PM, GHZ <geraint.willi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I the order is required for Foreign Key relationships. i.e. to make
> sure the children are deleted before the parents.
>
> So the "for table in reversed(meta.sorted_tables)" example is the more
> correct way to delete all data.
>
>
>
> On Feb 15, 1:29 pm, Arve Knudsen <arve.knud...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thank you GHZ, it did work! Wondering about one thing though; the recipe
> in
> > the documentation iterates over the tables in reverse sorted order, like
> so:
> >
> > for table in reversed(meta.sorted_tables)
> >
> > Do you know what this would be good for (since your code does not care
> about
> > the table order)?
> >
> > Arve
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:51 PM, GHZ <geraint.willi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > maybe it needs to be in a transaction:
> >
> > > con = engine.connect()
> >
> > > trans = con.begin()
> >
> > > for name, table in meta.tables.items():
> >
> > >    print table.delete()
> > >    con.execute(table.delete())
> >
> > > trans.commit()
> >
> > > On Feb 14, 1:29 pm, Arve Knudsen <arve.knud...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi
> >
> > > > What's the right way to clear a database all of content, but keep the
> > > > schema? I tried the method of deleting all tables athttp://
> > >www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/05/metadata.html#reflecting-all-tables...,
> > > > but content still remains. I couldn't find any documentation on
> > > Table.delete
> > > > either, for that matter. Maybe I'm missing something...
> >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Arve
> >
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