Hi all, I'm new to SQLAlchemy, and looking for some advice on how to approach working with an existing database. The database will not be managed by Python, and I will need to maintain whatever library I write to keep up with the occasional schema change. I am looking to write a more-or-less definitive database access layer for myself and others to use if and when we write applications in Python -- the company is not primarily a Python shop.
What's my best approach for building this library? Should I use Declarative, or should I use classical mapping -- which would be better, easier to maintain, easier for others to use? Should I be writing out the classes, or should I rely on reflection? Speaking of reflection, I've been using it to analyze what SQLAlchemy thinks of the schema. For a given table created by reflection, I'm seeing _autoincrement_column, columns, foreign_keys, indexes, and primary_key -- are there other table attributes I should be inspecting? Thanks for your advice! ---Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
