document table.constraints

[Former user]

I was trying to temporarily disable foreign keys for replication, but for the life of me couldn't find how to get the set of ForeignKeyConstraint objects from either Inspector, MetaData, or Table, for the longest time. There's nothing on it from google.

Perhaps it should be exposed in the docs. Are there any reason it is private?

[Mike Bayer]

its table.constraints. seems like there's no docstring for that since its just an instance level attribute.

[Mike Bayer]

also the ForeignKey objects, which are the components of a ForeignKeyConstraint, are at http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_9/core/metadata.html?highlight=table#sqlalchemy.schema.Table.foreign_keys.

[Former user]

I see. When I filed the ticket it was very late night/early morning so my head wasn't exactly straight. Should've looked at the instance level attributes.

But anyhow it seems to make sense to expose things like indexes and constraints if foreign_keys is mentioned in the docs. At least a sentence or 2 in the tutorial.

[Mike Bayer]

I'll definitely add docstrings, I do that by placing a class-level variable with a doc that is set to None. Carry on !