from sqlalchemy import create_engine from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session, sessionmaker from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base engine = create_engine('sqlite:///database.sqlite3', convert_unicode=True) db_session = scoped_session(sessionmaker(autocommit=False, autoflush=False, bind=engine)) Base = declarative_base() Base.query = db_session.query_property() def init_db(): # import all modules here that might define models so that # they will be registered properly on the metadata. Otherwise # you will have to import them first before calling init_db() from models import Department, Employee Base.metadata.drop_all(bind=engine) Base.metadata.create_all(bind=engine) # Create the fixtures engineering = Department(name='Engineering') db_session.add(engineering) hr = Department(name='Human Resources') db_session.add(hr) peter = Employee(name='Peter', department=engineering) db_session.add(peter) roy = Employee(name='Roy', department=engineering) db_session.add(roy) tracy = Employee(name='Tracy', department=hr) db_session.add(tracy) db_session.commit()