Dynamic Table Creation and ORM mapping in SqlAlchemy

Question

I\'m fairly new to using relational databases, so I prefer using a good ORM to simplify things. I spent time evaluating different Python ORMs and I think SQLAlchemy is what

Answer 1

Maybe look at SQLSoup, which is layer over SQLAlchemy.

You can also create the tables using plain SQL, and to dynamically map, use these libraries if they already don't have create table function.

Or alternatively create a dynamic class and map it:

tableClass = type(str(table.fullname), (BaseTable.BaseTable,), {})
mapper(tableClass, table)

where BaseTable can be any Python class which you want all your table classes to inherit from, e.g. such Base class may have some utility or common methods, e.g. basic CRUD methods:

class BaseTable(object): pass

Otherwise you need not pass any bases to type(...).