How to print all columns in SQLAlchemy ORM

Question

Using SQLAlchemy, I am trying to print out all of the attributes of each model that I have in a manner similar to:

SELECT * from table;

How

Answer 1

I'm using SQL Alchemy v 1.0.14 on Python 3.5.2

Assuming you can connect to an engine with create_engine(), I was able to display all columns using the following code. Replace "my connection string" and "my table name" with the appropriate values.

from sqlalchemy import create_engine, MetaData, Table, select

engine = create_engine('my connection string')

conn = engine.connect()
metadata = MetaData(conn)
t = Table("my table name", metadata, autoload=True)
columns = [m.key for m in t.columns]
columns

the last row just displays the column names from the previous statement.