I've narrowed down my problem space a bit. Consider this simple code:

from sqlalchemy import (Integer, String, Column, MetaData, create_engine)
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base

METADATA = MetaData()
BASE = declarative_base(metadata=METADATA)
SESSION = sessionmaker()

class User(BASE):
    __tablename__ = "user"
    first_name = Column(String(32))
    last_name = Column(String(32))
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)

print(type(User))
print(type(METADATA.tables['user']))

When run, I get this output:

<class 'sqlalchemy.ext.declarative.api.DeclarativeMeta'>
<class 'sqlalchemy.sql.schema.Table'>

The User class is suitable to use as the first arg to 
session.bulk_insert_mapping(), but the object plucked from the METADATA 
tables dict is not. Will I have to always carry around my own references to 
the various subclasses of BASE which I defined to describe my schema? If I 
have metadata and session objects, is there a way to get back that usable 
(or a usable) class?

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