On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Jon Snyder <snyder....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The documentation and code is quite clear that it's the name, not the value, > of a PEP-435 compliant enum that is persisted to the database. > > My use case is that existing enums already in the db are using strings that > are not valid python names (they contain spaces). > > How would the community here feel about an option to the Enum initializer > that would allow using the .value of the enum for its persisted value?
IIRC there is some issue with how enums work that make this impossible. I'd have to dig into what that was, but if you want to work up a patch that includes unit tests, then we can revisit if this is the case or not. > > Thank you > > -- > 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. -- 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.
