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- Metadata-Version: 2.0
- Name: SQLAlchemy
- Version: 1.1.10
- Summary: Database Abstraction Library
- Home-page: http://www.sqlalchemy.org
- Author: Mike Bayer
- Author-email: mike_mp@zzzcomputing.com
- License: MIT License
- Platform: UNKNOWN
- Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
- Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
- Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
- Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
- Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
- Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython
- Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: Jython
- Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy
- Classifier: Topic :: Database :: Front-Ends
- Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
- Provides-Extra: mssql_pymssql
- Requires-Dist: pymssql; extra == 'mssql_pymssql'
- Provides-Extra: mssql_pyodbc
- Requires-Dist: pyodbc; extra == 'mssql_pyodbc'
- Provides-Extra: mysql
- Requires-Dist: mysqlclient; extra == 'mysql'
- Provides-Extra: oracle
- Requires-Dist: cx-oracle; extra == 'oracle'
- Provides-Extra: postgresql
- Requires-Dist: psycopg2; extra == 'postgresql'
- Provides-Extra: postgresql_pg8000
- Requires-Dist: pg8000; extra == 'postgresql_pg8000'
- Provides-Extra: postgresql_psycopg2cffi
- Requires-Dist: psycopg2cffi; extra == 'postgresql_psycopg2cffi'
- Provides-Extra: pymysql
- Requires-Dist: pymysql; extra == 'pymysql'
- SQLAlchemy
- ==========
- The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper
- Introduction
- -------------
- SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper
- that gives application developers the full power and
- flexibility of SQL. SQLAlchemy provides a full suite
- of well known enterprise-level persistence patterns,
- designed for efficient and high-performing database
- access, adapted into a simple and Pythonic domain
- language.
- Major SQLAlchemy features include:
- * An industrial strength ORM, built
- from the core on the identity map, unit of work,
- and data mapper patterns. These patterns
- allow transparent persistence of objects
- using a declarative configuration system.
- Domain models
- can be constructed and manipulated naturally,
- and changes are synchronized with the
- current transaction automatically.
- * A relationally-oriented query system, exposing
- the full range of SQL's capabilities
- explicitly, including joins, subqueries,
- correlation, and most everything else,
- in terms of the object model.
- Writing queries with the ORM uses the same
- techniques of relational composition you use
- when writing SQL. While you can drop into
- literal SQL at any time, it's virtually never
- needed.
- * A comprehensive and flexible system
- of eager loading for related collections and objects.
- Collections are cached within a session,
- and can be loaded on individual access, all
- at once using joins, or by query per collection
- across the full result set.
- * A Core SQL construction system and DBAPI
- interaction layer. The SQLAlchemy Core is
- separate from the ORM and is a full database
- abstraction layer in its own right, and includes
- an extensible Python-based SQL expression
- language, schema metadata, connection pooling,
- type coercion, and custom types.
- * All primary and foreign key constraints are
- assumed to be composite and natural. Surrogate
- integer primary keys are of course still the
- norm, but SQLAlchemy never assumes or hardcodes
- to this model.
- * Database introspection and generation. Database
- schemas can be "reflected" in one step into
- Python structures representing database metadata;
- those same structures can then generate
- CREATE statements right back out - all within
- the Core, independent of the ORM.
- SQLAlchemy's philosophy:
- * SQL databases behave less and less like object
- collections the more size and performance start to
- matter; object collections behave less and less like
- tables and rows the more abstraction starts to matter.
- SQLAlchemy aims to accommodate both of these
- principles.
- * An ORM doesn't need to hide the "R". A relational
- database provides rich, set-based functionality
- that should be fully exposed. SQLAlchemy's
- ORM provides an open-ended set of patterns
- that allow a developer to construct a custom
- mediation layer between a domain model and
- a relational schema, turning the so-called
- "object relational impedance" issue into
- a distant memory.
- * The developer, in all cases, makes all decisions
- regarding the design, structure, and naming conventions
- of both the object model as well as the relational
- schema. SQLAlchemy only provides the means
- to automate the execution of these decisions.
- * With SQLAlchemy, there's no such thing as
- "the ORM generated a bad query" - you
- retain full control over the structure of
- queries, including how joins are organized,
- how subqueries and correlation is used, what
- columns are requested. Everything SQLAlchemy
- does is ultimately the result of a developer-
- initiated decision.
- * Don't use an ORM if the problem doesn't need one.
- SQLAlchemy consists of a Core and separate ORM
- component. The Core offers a full SQL expression
- language that allows Pythonic construction
- of SQL constructs that render directly to SQL
- strings for a target database, returning
- result sets that are essentially enhanced DBAPI
- cursors.
- * Transactions should be the norm. With SQLAlchemy's
- ORM, nothing goes to permanent storage until
- commit() is called. SQLAlchemy encourages applications
- to create a consistent means of delineating
- the start and end of a series of operations.
- * Never render a literal value in a SQL statement.
- Bound parameters are used to the greatest degree
- possible, allowing query optimizers to cache
- query plans effectively and making SQL injection
- attacks a non-issue.
- Documentation
- -------------
- Latest documentation is at:
- http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/
- Installation / Requirements
- ---------------------------
- Full documentation for installation is at
- `Installation <http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/intro.html#installation>`_.
- Getting Help / Development / Bug reporting
- ------------------------------------------
- Please refer to the `SQLAlchemy Community Guide <http://www.sqlalchemy.org/support.html>`_.
- License
- -------
- SQLAlchemy is distributed under the `MIT license
- <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php>`_.
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