ORM tutorial lacks imports

[Former user]

I tried to run the example code from the ORM tutorial, to be precise it was the code from

http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/05/ormtutorial.html#creating-table-class-and-mapper-all-at-once-declaratively

This failed saying "NameError: name 'Column' is not defined". I could run the example after doing

from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String

My system is an openSuse 11.1 with python 2.6 and sqlalchemy 0.5.1.

[Mike Bayer]

each code sample in the tutorial builds upon the program state built up by the previous one. in this case the import for Column etc. is here:

http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/05/ormtutorial.html#define-and-create-a-table

the file can be executed fully via the doctest script in doc/build/testdocs.py.

while we could do the easy thing and say "from sqlalchemy import *" or have everything run off of "import sqlalchemy as sa", there hasn't been any push in that direction.