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

Merge the session.

u = session.query(User).get(id)
u.name = 'user1_changed'
u = session.merge(u)

This will update the database and return the newer object.