On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 4:49 PM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>   In postgres (and I believe also in sqlite3) values in a table column can
> be restricted to certain values.
>
>   In models.py the class Sites() includes this column:
>
>         data_type = Column(String(12), nullable=False,
>              CheckConstraint('Biogical', 'Chemical', 'Microbial',
> 'Physical',
>              'Multiple'))
>
> but Python doesn't like this syntax:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./openEDMS.py", line 18, in <module>
>     import models
>   File "/home/rshepard/development/openEDMS/models.py", line 28
>     data_type = Column(String(64), nullable=False,
> CheckConstraint('Biogical',
>                                                   'Chemical', 'Microbial',
>                                                   'Physical', 'Multiple')) ^
> SyntaxError: positional argument follows keyword argument
>
>   My web search found examples and the SA CHECK constraint description, but
> none used a list of strings as acceptable values. I need to learn how to
> implement this constraint as there are several model classes that use it.


you're looking for a table-level check constraint with IN:

table.append_constraint(
   CheckConstraint(table.c.data_type.in_('A', 'B', 'C'))
)

alternatively, just use the backend-agnostic Enum type with native=False:

http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/core/type_basics.html?highlight=enum#sqlalchemy.types.Enum

gives you the same CHECK constraint


>
> Rich
>
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