SQLAlchemy printing raw SQL from create()

Question

I am giving Pylons a try with SQLAlchemy, and I love it, there is just one thing, is it possible to print out the raw SQL CREATE TABLE data generated from

Answer 1

May be you mean echo parameter of sqlalchemy.create_engine?

/tmp$ cat test_s.py

import sqlalchemy as sa
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base

Base = declarative_base()

class Department(Base):
    __tablename__ = "departments"

    department_id = sa.Column(sa.types.Integer, primary_key=True)
    name = sa.Column(sa.types.Unicode(100), unique=True)
    chief_id = sa.Column(sa.types.Integer)
    parent_department_id = sa.Column(sa.types.Integer,
                                     sa.ForeignKey("departments.department_id"))

    parent_department = sa.orm.relation("Department")


engine = sa.create_engine("sqlite:///:memory:", echo=True)
Base.metadata.create_all(bind=engine)

/tmp$ python test_s.py

2011-03-24 15:09:58,311 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...42cc PRAGMA table_info("departments")
2011-03-24 15:09:58,312 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...42cc ()
2011-03-24 15:09:58,312 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...42cc 
CREATE TABLE departments (
    department_id INTEGER NOT NULL, 
    name VARCHAR(100), 
    chief_id INTEGER, 
    parent_department_id INTEGER, 
    PRIMARY KEY (department_id), 
    UNIQUE (name), 
    FOREIGN KEY(parent_department_id) REFERENCES departments (department_id)
)

2011-03-24 15:09:58,312 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...42cc ()
2011-03-24 15:09:58,312 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...42cc COMMIT