Re: sqlalchemy beginner

2011-11-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 21Nov2011 22:18, Roy Smith wrote: | In article | <8832ab6d-8def-45d1-92df-baac40e1c...@t36g2000prt.googlegroups.com>, | alex23 wrote: | > On Nov 22, 10:25?am, Roy Smith wrote: | > > Everytime I've worked with SQLAlchemy, I've run away screaming in the | > > other direction. ?Sure, portabili

Re: sqlalchemy beginner

2011-11-21 Thread Roy Smith
In article <8832ab6d-8def-45d1-92df-baac40e1c...@t36g2000prt.googlegroups.com>, alex23 wrote: > On Nov 22, 10:25 am, Roy Smith wrote: > > Everytime I've worked with SQLAlchemy, I've run away screaming in the > > other direction.  Sure, portability is a good thing, but at what cost? > > I've n

Re: sqlalchemy beginner

2011-11-21 Thread alex23
On Nov 22, 10:25 am, Roy Smith wrote: > Everytime I've worked with SQLAlchemy, I've run away screaming in the > other direction.  Sure, portability is a good thing, but at what cost? I've never found SQLAlchemy to be anything but sane and approachable. It's really worth understanding _how_ it wor

Re: sqlalchemy beginner

2011-11-21 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Jabba Laci wrote: > Hi, > > I'm reading the Essential SQLAlchemy book from O'Reilly. Everytime I've worked with SQLAlchemy, I've run away screaming in the other direction. Sure, portability is a good thing, but at what cost? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-lis

Re: sqlalchemy beginner

2011-11-21 Thread John Gordon
In Jabba Laci writes: > SAWarning: Unicode column received non-unicode default value. > Column('display_name', Unicode(255), default=''), Perhaps it would help to supply the default value as a Unicode string instead of a plain string? Column('display_name', Unicode(255), default=u''), --