I am a SQLAlchemy noob.

Let's say I have an user table in declarative mode:

class User(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'user'
    id = Column(u'id', Integer(), primary_key=True)
    name = Column(u'name', String(50))

When I know user's id without object loaded into session, I update such user like this:

ex = update(User.__table__).where(User.id==123).values(name=u"Bob Marley")
Session.execute(ex)

I dislike using User.__table__, should I stop worrying with that?

Is there a better way to do this?

Thanx!