Installation

The module can be installed from the Python Package Index for example by running:

pip install dbschema

The module is compatible with Python 2.7, >=3.2 and PyPy. Depending on the database system you want to access a DB-API2 (PEP 249) compliant driver is required.

Usage

The following example shows the basic usage of the dbschema module:

>>> import dbschema
>>> import psycopg2  # in this example we're using a PostgreSQL database
>>> connection = psycopg2.connect(dbname='demo', user='john', password='doe')
>>> schema = dbschema.open('postgresql', connection)
>>> tables = schema.get_tables()
>>> for table in schema.get_tables():
...     print(table.name)
...
artist
track
artist_track_rel
[…]
>>>

Continue with the tutorial to learn more about the database object.

License

dbschema is licensed under the BSD license.

Resources

Documentation

http://python-dbschema.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Bug tracker

https://bitbucket.org/andialbrecht/python-dbschema/issues

Source code

https://bitbucket.org/andialbrecht/python-dbschema