SEsebleblanc·Nov 15, 2015
SQLAlchemy[1] is a large project with a very solid codebase; it is very well documented and the API is exemplary.
1: https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
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5 sourcesSQLAlchemy really is great. Alembic (the schema migration toolkit) still lacks some functionality compared to e.g. the Django "South" package, especially concerning the handling of cyclic dependencies (where it just "bails out") and some things that are still not correctly implemented for various database backends (such as Enum fields), but apart from that it's a really really great tool. Recently I have used it to implement MongoDB query sntax on SQL which was not only possible using SQLAlchemy but even enjoyable (for those who are interested in running Mongo queries on SQL: https://github.com/adewes/blitzdb -> see feature/sql_backend branch, which is still not 100 % stable though).
What makes it especially amazing is that Mike Bayer has written 90 % of the code base by himself (https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/graphs/contributors),
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which somtimes makes me wonder if he is a real person or just a pseudonym under which a group of talented programmers publish code ;)
SQLAlchemy
- https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy
- http://www.aosabook.org/en/sqlalchemy.html
- http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_1_0/
In Ask HN: What is your favorite Python package in terms of design and usability?SQLAlchemy is one of my favourite larger python codebases: https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy
In Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?SQLAlchemy
- https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy
- http://www.aosabook.org/en/sqlalchemy.html
- http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_1_0/
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