import sqlalchemy as sa AllowedUser = None def init_db(model): global AllowedUser if AllowedUser is None: class _AllowedUser(model.DomainObject): @classmethod def get(cls, **kw): '''Finds all the instances required.''' query = model.Session.query(cls).autoflush(False) return query.filter_by(**kw).all() AllowedUser = _AllowedUser package_allowed_users_table = sa.Table('package_allowed_users', model.meta.metadata, sa.Column('package_id', sa.types.UnicodeText, primary_key=True, default=u''), sa.Column('user_name', sa.types.UnicodeText, primary_key=True, default=u''), ) # Create the table only if it does not exist package_allowed_users_table.create(checkfirst=True) model.meta.mapper(AllowedUser, package_allowed_users_table,)