On May 6, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Michael Nachtigal 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> If I have several mapped classes on which I want to have defined some shared 
> set of methods, e.g., ._todict(), how can I accomplish this (without multiple 
> inheritance or defining them manually in each class)?
> I tried making the classes inherit from a shared parent class, but I receive 
> errors because that parent class isn't mapped to anything.
> 
> I appreciate any help that anyone can offer.


if you're using declarative mapping, you can define common base classes using 
the __abstract__ flag:

http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_8/orm/extensions/declarative.html#abstract

other options include an augmented base and mixins:

http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_8/orm/extensions/declarative.html#augmenting-the-base



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