Convert sqlalchemy row object to python dict
- by Anurag Uniyal
or a simple way to iterate over columnName, value pairs?
My version of sqlalchemy is 0.5.6
Here is the sample code where I tried using dict(row), but it throws exception , TypeError: 'User' object is not iterable
import sqlalchemy
from sqlalchemy import *
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
print "sqlalchemy version:",sqlalchemy.__version__
engine = create_engine('sqlite:///:memory:', echo=False)
metadata = MetaData()
users_table = Table('users', metadata,
Column('id', Integer, primary_key=True),
Column('name', String),
)
metadata.create_all(engine)
class User(declarative_base()):
__tablename__ = 'users'
id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
name = Column(String)
def __init__(self, name):
self.name = name
Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
session = Session()
user1 = User("anurag")
session.add(user1)
session.commit()
# uncommenting next line throws exception 'TypeError: 'User' object is not iterable'
#print dict(user1)
# this one also throws 'TypeError: 'User' object is not iterable'
for u in session.query(User).all():
print dict(u)
Running this code on my system outputs:
sqlalchemy version: 0.5.6
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "untitled-1.py", line 37, in <module>
print dict(u)
TypeError: 'User' object is not iterable