On Friday, October 6, 2017 at 7:23:45 AM UTC-4, Simon King wrote: > > Your code probably needs to do something like this: > > engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine(url, client_encoding='utf8') > connection = engine.connect() > > "engine.connect()" will raise an exception if it fails to connect. >
Expanding on Simon's answer, there is also some more detail on this in the connection-pooling docs: http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/core/pooling.html Depending on how you write this function, you may need to send something over the wire -- such as "SELECT 1;" -- just to ensure you're communicating with the DB properly if you are ever checking an existing connection. -- SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full description. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
