How to preserve database connection in a python web server

Question

I am looking at the Flask tutorial, and it suggests to create a new database connection for each web request. Is it the right way to do things ? I always thought that the da

Answer 1

Is creating a new connection each request the way to go? No. For large applications we strongly recommend using SQLAlchemy (which can have a connection pool configured), even if you are not interested in the ORM. The docs have a section on that actually: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/patterns/sqlalchemy/#sql-abstraction-layer