Ok, I have managed to get rid of the problem, but I'm don't like what is happening. Solution: remove a secondary relation from the model:
model = relationship("Model", secondary='item_group', uselist=False) After this, the following code does do a proper delete of the items: for it in self.session.query(ItemMeta).filter_by(item_group=item_group).all(): if type(it) == ItemMeta: item_group.items.remove(it) self.session.delete(it) self.session.commit() However, things are still not ideal. The following should work but doesn't: for item in item_group.items: self.session.delete(item) Then only half of the item get deleted, which is a bit weird. Anybody any thoughts on this? Why does a secondary relation of this kind of effect on a delete? Kinde regards, Nacho -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sqlalchemy/073b7947-ed51-4b63-bfdb-a5499128c06c%40googlegroups.com.