Unless you need to use all the readings immediately, have you considered just making a custom def under the Sensor model, and then inserting all the readings via sqlalchemy core? That would allow you to insert them without creating ORM objects, which people using numpy and a lot of data often like to avoid.
Then you could do... s = Sensor() session.add(s) session.add_readings(dates, voltages, values) it would look something like this... class Sensor(Base): def add_readings(self, dates, voltages, values): if not self.id: # flush this to the session session = object_session(self) session.flush(objects=[self]) # insert via core -- SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full description. --- 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.