from sqlalchemy import Column, DateTime, String, Integer, ForeignKey, func from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship, backref from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base import ConfigParser config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser() config.read("config.cnf") postgres_url = config.get('postgres', 'postgres_url') ''' This model has been referenced from: https://www.pythoncentral.io/sqlalchemy-orm-examples/ ''' Base = declarative_base() class User(Base): __tablename__ = 'users' id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True) first_name = Column(String) last_name = Column(String) username = Column(String) class Message(Base): __tablename__ = 'messages' id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True) user_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('users.id'), nullable=False) message = Column(String) # Use default=func.now() to set the default hiring time # of an Employee to be the current time when an # Employee record was created time = Column(DateTime, default=func.now()) from sqlalchemy import create_engine engine = create_engine(postgres_url) from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker session = sessionmaker() session.configure(bind=engine) Base.metadata.create_all(engine) print "Created database model"