From db51d27579d5177c415643707abf3108dc209923 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "sergey.volobuev" Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:45:13 +1000 Subject: changed the explanation of the (now missing) __init__ method --- docs/tutorials/wiki2/basiclayout.rst | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/tutorials/wiki2/basiclayout.rst') diff --git a/docs/tutorials/wiki2/basiclayout.rst b/docs/tutorials/wiki2/basiclayout.rst index 0193afab4..4b78b30d1 100644 --- a/docs/tutorials/wiki2/basiclayout.rst +++ b/docs/tutorials/wiki2/basiclayout.rst @@ -225,10 +225,11 @@ To give a simple example of a model class, we define one named ``MyModel``: :linenos: :language: py -Our example model has an ``__init__`` method that takes two arguments -(``name``, and ``value``). It stores these values as ``self.name`` and -``self.value`` on the instance created by the ``__init__`` function itself. -The ``MyModel`` class also has a ``__tablename__`` attribute. This informs +Our example model does not require an ``__init__`` method because SQLAlchemy +supplies for us a default constructor if one is not already present, +which accepts keyword arguments of the same name as that of the mapped attributes. + +The ``MyModel`` class has a ``__tablename__`` attribute. This informs SQLAlchemy which table to use to store the data representing instances of this class. -- cgit v1.2.3 From ca51e11d86f9b4cb24f35e28fa3ab801fc6a49ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bert JW Regeer Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 19:07:22 -0600 Subject: Add small note showing example usage of MyModel --- docs/tutorials/wiki2/basiclayout.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/tutorials/wiki2/basiclayout.rst') diff --git a/docs/tutorials/wiki2/basiclayout.rst b/docs/tutorials/wiki2/basiclayout.rst index 4b78b30d1..1f3d630c7 100644 --- a/docs/tutorials/wiki2/basiclayout.rst +++ b/docs/tutorials/wiki2/basiclayout.rst @@ -229,6 +229,12 @@ Our example model does not require an ``__init__`` method because SQLAlchemy supplies for us a default constructor if one is not already present, which accepts keyword arguments of the same name as that of the mapped attributes. +.. note:: Example usage of MyModel: + + .. code-block:: python + + johnny = MyModel(name="John Doe", value=10) + The ``MyModel`` class has a ``__tablename__`` attribute. This informs SQLAlchemy which table to use to store the data representing instances of this class. -- cgit v1.2.3