Nested transactions with SQLAlchemy and sqlite

Question

I\'m writing an application in Python using SQLAlchemy (and Elixir) with SQLite as the database backend. I start a new transaction using the code session.begin_transac

Answer 1

SQLAlchemy uses pysqlite to interact with an SQLite database, if I'm not mistaken pysqlite will by default wrap up any query you send it in a transaction.

The answer might lie in correctly setting the isolation level when you connect.

Some discussion about that over here