You could use the following function:
def __unicode__(self):
return "[%s(%s)]" % (self.__class__.__name__, ', '.join('%s=%s' % (k, self.__dict__[k]) for k in sorted(self.__dict__) if '_sa_' != k[:4]))
It will exclude SA magic attributes, but will not exclude the relations. So basically it might load the dependencies, parents, children etc, which is definitely not desirable.
But it is actually much easier because if you inherit from Base
, you have a __table__
attribute, so that you can do:
for c in JobStatus.__table__.columns:
print c
for c in JobStatus.__table__.foreign_keys:
print c
See How to discover table properties from SQLAlchemy mapped object – similar question.
Edit by Mike: Please see functions such as Mapper.c and Mapper.mapped_table. If using 0.8 and higher also see Mapper.attrs and related functions.
Example for Mapper.attrs:
from sqlalchemy import inspect
mapper = inspect(JobStatus)
for column in mapper.attrs:
print column.key