This may seems rather argumentative, but I just went through SQLAlchemy's ORM tutorial and ended up with the following code:

from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy import Table, Column, Integer, String, MetaData, ForeignKey
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker

engine = create_engine('sqlite:///:memory:', echo=True)

metadata = MetaData()
users_table = Table('users', metadata,
    Column('id', Integer, primary_key=True),
    Column('name', String),
    Column('fullname', String),
    Column('password', String)
)

metadata.create_all(engine)

Base = declarative_base()
class User(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'users'

    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    name = Column(String)
    fullname = Column(String)
    password = Column(String)

    def __init__(self, name, fullname, password):
        self.name = name
        self.fullname = fullname
        self.password = password

    def __repr__(self):
       return "<User('%s','%s', '%s')>" % (self.name, self.fullname, self.password)

users_table = User.__table__
metadata = Base.metadata

Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
Session = sessionmaker()
Session.configure(bind=engine)  # once engine is available
session = Session()

# actually using the ORM isn't too bad..
ed_user = User('ed', 'Ed Jones', 'edspassword')
session.add(ed_user)

our_user = session.query(User).filter_by(name='ed').first() 
print our_user

session.add_all([
    User('wendy', 'Wendy Williams', 'foobar'),
    User('mary', 'Mary Contrary', 'xxg527'),
    User('fred', 'Fred Flinstone', 'blah')])

ed_user.password = 'f8s7ccs'

print session.dirty
print session.new
session.commit()

for instance in session.query(User).order_by(User.id): 
    print instance.name, instance.fullname

for name, fullname in session.query(User.name, User.fullname): 
    print name, fullname

                    
                    

                        
                        python
                        
                        orm
                        
                        sqlalchemy
                        
                    

                    

                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
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