Best way to do enum in Sqlalchemy?

Question

I\'m reading about sqlalchemy and I saw following code:

employees_table = Table(\'employees\', metadata,
    Column(\'employee_id\', Integer, primary_key=Tru         


        

Answer 1

SQLAlchemy has an Enum type since 0.6: http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/core/type_basics.html?highlight=enum#sqlalchemy.types.Enum

Although I would only recommend its usage if your database has a native enum type. Otherwise I would personally just use an int.