that should work fine, add "echo=True" to your create_engine() call  
and it will show you all the SQL being issued.

On Sep 4, 2006, at 10:03 AM, Enrico Morelli wrote:

> Another question,
>
> why when I try to use engine.execute() to alter a table nothing  
> happens?
>> From a program that I'm writing doesn't works, so I had try by  
>> hand from
> a python shell, but nothing happen also.
>
> from sqlalchemy import *
>
> engine=create_engine('postgres://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/NMR2')
> metadata=BoundMetaData(engine)
> session=create_session()
> t='mytable'
> c='mycolumn'
> engine.execute('ALTER TABLE %s ADD COLUMN %s VARCHAR(50)' % (t, c))
>
>
> I use psql to see the result, but nothing happen.
>
> Excuse me for this stupid question but I'm unable to solve it.
>
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