ENUM type in SQLAlchemy with PostgreSQL

Question

I\'m using SQLAlchemy core with a postgresql database and I would like to add the ENUM type to my table definition. According to the postgresql documentatio

Answer 1

You need to import Enum from sqlalchemy and add a name to it. It should work like this:

from sqlalchemy import Enum

person = Table("user_profile", metadata,
    Column("name", String(20)),
    Column("gender", Enum("female", "male", name="gender_enum", create_type=False))
);