High numerical precision floats with MySQL and the SQLAlchemy ORM

Question

I store some numbers in a MySQL using the ORM of SQLAlchemy. When I fetch them afterward, they are truncated such that only 6 significant digits are conserved, thus losing a

Answer 1

Per our discussion in the comments: sa.types.Float(precision=[precision here]) instead of sa.Float allows you to specify precision; however, sa.Float(Precision=32) has no effect. See the documentation for more information.