On Monday, November 23, 2015 at 3:02:35 PM UTC-6, Simon King wrote:
>
>
> > On 23 Nov 2015, at 17:58, mzag...@d.umn.edu <javascript:> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I'm new to SQLAlchemy - sorry if the answer to this question is obvious.
> >
> > I have a table with many fields.
> >
> > I've created the ORM mapping:
> >
> > Base = declarative_base()
> > class CallRecord(Base):
> > [stuff]
> >
> > I'd like to create the CallRecord object by passing a dictionary to the
> constructor. Is that possible?
> >
> > call_record = CallRecord(my_dict)
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
> >
>
> The declarative_base sets up an __init__ function that accepts initial
> values as keyword arguments, so you can write something like:
>
> call_record = CallRecord(a=123, b=456)
>
> In Python, you can call a function with keyword arguments from a
> dictionary using the “**” syntax:
>
> args = {‘a’: 123, ‘b’: 456}
> call_record = CallRecord(**args)
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Simon
>
>
Thanks Simon!
-m
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