That's weird: the name I see is exactly what I've been using, "VENDR".
All caps and everything. I tried using lowercase, just to see what it
would do, but it failed.
On 3/11/16, Mike Bayer <clas...@zzzcomputing.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 03/11/2016 09:39 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
>> Hello list,
>> Finally, a pure SA question from me. I'm using Automap and the "only"
>> keyword to automap a subset of the tables in our CMS database. This
>> has worked perfectly thus far. Now, though, it's failing on a specific
>> table, and the only difference I can see is that this table's name is
>> in all caps, whereas the rest are all lowercase. Capitalization
>> shouldn't matter, right?
>
> it does, as ALLCAPS is case sensitive and indicates quoting will be
> used. How to handle this depends on the exact name that's in the
> database and if it truly does not match case-insensitively.
>
> Examine the output of:
>
> inspect(engine).get_table_names()
>
> find your table, and that's the name you should use.
>
>
>
>
> Stranger still, the actual reflection doesn't
>> error out. Later, where I try to assign base.classes.MYTABLE to a
>> variable, is where I get an AttributeError. Here's my code:
>>
>> engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine("mssql+pyodbc://%s:%s@%s"
>> %(username, password, dsn))
>> base = automap_base()
>> session = Session(engine)
>> metadata = sqlalchemy.MetaData()
>> desiredTables = ["table", "othertable", "VENDR"]
>> metadata.reflect(engine, only=desiredTables) #works fine
>>
>> table = base.classes.table #fine
>> table2 = base.classes.othertable #fine
>> vendorTable = base.classes.VENDR #AttributeError
>>
>> I've added and removed tables as I adjust this script, and all of them
>> work perfectly. This VENDR table is the first one in two days to cause
>> problems. If I iterate over all the classes in base.classes and print
>> each one, I don't even see it in that list, so SA isn't simply
>> transforming the name. This is probably a simple thing, but I don't
>> see the problem. Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>
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