How to override a column name in sqlalchemy using reflection and descriptive syntax

Question

Hello I\'m trying to port a legacy application to python with sqlalchemy.

The application\'s existing database has about 300 tables and in every table there is a col

Answer 1

This may be too much brute force, but another approach is to use the sqlacodegen library to auto-generate all the models for your DB, then alter those manually, or tweak sqlacodegen to build the models using your conventions. It has support for mapping reserved words to other symbols.

See https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqlacodegen. Nice tool.