Thanks Mike,
Like I mentioned for my particular application, I won't be using the usual
ORM but just the bare engine/connection. I'll just be provided with a table
name and a connection.  I did a little bit of research but was only able to
figure out how to obtain the primary for a mysql database (ie, through the
mysql dialect instance).

I was just wondering if there was a transparent interface regardless of the
database dialect.

Paul

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Mike Conley <[email protected]> wrote:

> Look at the primary_key attribute of the table instance.
>
> uu = Table('u',meta,
>         Column('id',Integer,primary_key=True),
>         Column('data',Integer))
> print uu.primary_key.columns
> ['u.id']
>
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Paul Rigor (gmail) 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi gang,
>> I've recently started using sqlalchemy, so hopefully this isn't a stupid
>> question...
>>
>> I was wondering whether there was an easy way to obtain a particular
>> table's schema if one is using just bare connection (ie, not using any
>> special orm's).  Specifically, is there a utility method somewhere which
>> allows one to obtain the primary key of a table?
>>
>> Thanks!!
>> paul
>>
>> --
>> Paul Rigor
>> Graduate Student
>> Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics
>> Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
>> University of California in Irvine
>> 248 ICS2 Bldg.
>> +1 (760) 536 - 6767 (skype)
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>


-- 
Paul Rigor
Graduate Student
Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
University of California in Irvine
248 ICS2 Bldg.
+1 (760) 536 - 6767 (skype)

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