Sqlalchemy session.refresh does not refresh object

Question

I have the following mapping (straight from SA examples):

class User(Base):
    __tablename__ = \'users\'

    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    name =          


        

Answer 1

session.refresh() didn't work for me either. Even though I saw a low-level SELECT the object was not updated after the refresh.

This answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/11121788/562267 hints to doing an actual commit/rollback to reset the session, and that worked for me:

user_1 = session.query(User).filter(User.id==1).one()
user_1.name # This prints: u'user1'
# update the database from another client here
session.commit()
user_1 = session.query(User).filter(User.id==1).one()
user_1.name # Should be updated now.