Re: Spyce and SQL Alchemy Questions

--Jonathan Ellis <[email protected]> wrote:

> Spyce isn't doing anything special to keep it around; that's just the
> default SQLAlchemy behavior.  SA stores the engine in a (module-level)
> global somewhere...  it "just works" because the setup you are using
> only involves the one Python process.
>
> If you had a non-Spyce program like this,
>
> // foo.py
> from sqlalchemy import *
>
> def one():
>   // init db
>
> def two():
>   session = create_session()
>
> one()
> two()
>
> ... you would see the same behavior, even though no global state per se
> is shared between one() and two().

Thanks! That clears up my confusion.

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Bruce Webber
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