I'd like to map a class onto table and automatically get __init__() method per http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_1_0/orm/extensions/declarative/api.html#sqlalchemy.ext.declarative.declarative_base.params.constructor
However when I declare class as Base = declarative_base(metadata=metadata) class MyClass(Base): pass I get sqlalchemy.exc.InvalidRequestError: Class <class 'MyClass'> does not have a __table__ or __tablename__ specified and does not inherit from an existing table-mapped class. Is there a way to hold off this check until after I map this class like this my_table = sa.Table("my_table", meta.metadata, autoload=True, autoload_with=engine) orm.mapper(MyClass, my_table) ? I tried having MyClass inherit from object instead of Base but then I get TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'col1' when calling x = MyClass(col1=1, col2=2) , although "my_table" has "COL1" column. So it seems in this case __init__() method is not automatically synthesized. Regards, Piotr -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.