Enable executing multiple statements while execution via sqlalchemy

Question

I have a DDL object (create_function_foo) that contains a create function statement. In first line of it I put DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS foo; but

Answer 1

Yeah... This seems like a bummer to me. I don't want to use the ORM so the accepted answer didn't work for me.

I did this instead:

with open('sql_statements_file.sql') as sql_file:
    for statement in sql_file.read().split(';'):
        if len(statement.strip()) > 0:
             connection.execute(statement + ';')

And then this failed for a CREATE function.... YMMV.