Thank you GHZ, it did work! Wondering about one thing though; the recipe in
the documentation iterates over the tables in reverse sorted order, like so:

for table in reversed(meta.sorted_tables)

Do you know what this would be good for (since your code does not care about
the table order)?

Arve

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:51 PM, GHZ <geraint.willi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> maybe it needs to be in a transaction:
>
>
> con = engine.connect()
>
> trans = con.begin()
>
> for name, table in meta.tables.items():
>
>    print table.delete()
>    con.execute(table.delete())
>
> trans.commit()
>
>
>
> On Feb 14, 1:29 pm, Arve Knudsen <arve.knud...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > What's the right way to clear a database all of content, but keep the
> > schema? I tried the method of deleting all tables athttp://
> www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/05/metadata.html#reflecting-all-tables...,
> > but content still remains. I couldn't find any documentation on
> Table.delete
> > either, for that matter. Maybe I'm missing something...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Arve
>
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