Python database WITHOUT using Django (for Heroku)

Question

To my surprise, I haven\'t found this question asked elsewhere. Short version, I\'m writing an app that I plan to deploy to the cloud (probably using Heroku), which will do var

Answer 1

I did this recently with Flask. (https://github.com/HexIce/flask-heroku-sqlalchemy).

There are a couple of gotchas:

1. If you don't use Django you may have to set up your database yourself by doing:

heroku addons:add shared-database

(Or whichever database you want to use, the others cost money.)

2. The database URL is stored in Heroku in the "DATABASE_URL" environment variable. In python you can get it by doing.

dburl = os.environ['DATABASE_URL']

What you do to connect to the database from there is up to you, one option is SQLAlchemy.