Thanks for the detailed explanation.

On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 10:18 PM Mike Bayer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> the names of attributes on your Python class and the names of columns that 
> are emitted in SQL are two separate things.    When you have "jobid = 
> Column(Integer, ...)" , that's a declarative-only format that omits the first 
> argument to Column which is the "name"; the declarative mapping process sets 
> the "name" to be the same as the attribute name.
>
> when you instead have "jobid = Column("somename", Integer ,...)", then you're 
> passing the name argument.
>
> this API grew out of some various legacy patterns which is why it's a little 
> weird looking, but basically Column takes *args and it looks to see if it is 
> getting "str, TypeEngine" or just "TypeEngine".   It also can be passed 
> neither in cases where it derives its type from a ForeignKey() object.
>
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2022, at 8:25 PM, Larry Martell wrote:
>
> I normally define a column in a model like this, for example:
>
> jobID = Column(Integer, nullable=False, primary_key=True)
>
> I now have a case where there are columns in the db that have spaces
> so I want to map the column name to a variable of a different name.
> Googling I found this:
>
> https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/orm/mapping_columns.html#naming-columns-distinctly-from-attribute-names
>
> class User(Base):
>     __tablename__ = 'user'
>     id = Column('user_id', Integer, primary_key=True)
>     name = Column('user_name', String(50))
>
> How can that work? Is it a different version of Column() from what I
> have been using?

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