passing sequences to the activemapper's column class is very awkward

[Former user]

For oracle at least, you're likely to want a sequence for many if not all primary keys. Because the Column class won't accept these as keyword args the syntax is currently awkward:

class Page(ActiveMapper):

    class mapping:
        page_id = column(Integer, None, None, True, Sequence('seq_Page'))
        pagename = column (String(30), unique=True)
        data=column(Unicode)

Much better would be:

page_id = column(Integer, primary_key=True, sequence=Sequence('seq_Page'))

[Mike Bayer]

might want to use "default" as the keyword argument since a Sequence is just one kind of "default" that can be used with a Column.

[Mike Bayer]

activemapper is quickly being superceded by Elixir; closing this ticket.