howto create db mysql with sqlalchemy

Question

I need to create a db in mysql using sqlalchemy, I am able to connect to a db if it already exists, but I want to be able to create it if it does not exist. this are my tables:

    #def __init__(self):
Base = declarative_base()

class utente(Base):
    __tablename__="utente"
    utente_id=Column(Integer,primary_key=True)
    nome_utente=Column(Unicode(20))
    ruolo=Column(String(10))
    MetaData.create_all()

    def __repr(self):
        return "utente: {0}, {1}, id: {2}".format(self.ruolo,self.nome_utente,self.utente_id)


class dbmmas(Base):

    __tablename__="dbmmas"
    db_id=Column(Integer,primary_key=True,autoincrement=True)
    nome_db=Column(String(10))
    censimento=Column(Integer)
    versione=Column(Integer)
    ins_data=Column(DateTime)
    mod_data=Column(DateTime)
    ins_utente=Column(Integer)
    mod_utente=Column(Integer)
    MetaData.create_all()

    def __repr(self):
        return "dbmmas: {0}, censimento {1}, versione {2}".format(self.nome_db,self.censimento,self.versione)    

class funzione(Base):
    __tablename__="funzione"
    funzione_id=Column(Integer,primary_key=True,autoincrement=True)
    categoria=Column(String(10))
    nome=Column(String(20))
    def __repr__(self):
        return "funzione:{0},categoria:{1},id:{2} ".format(self.nome,self.categoria,self.funzione_id)

class profilo(Base):
    __tablename__="rel_utente_funzione" 
    utente_id=Column(Integer,primary_key=True)
    funzione_id=Column(Integer,primary_key=True)
    amministratore=Column(Integer)
    MetaData.create_all()

    def __repr(self):
        l=lambda x: "amministratore" if x==1 else "generico"
        return "profilo per utente_id:{0}, tipo: {1}, funzione_id: {2}".format(self.utente_id,l(self.amministratore),self.funzione_id)    

class aree(Base):
    __tablename__="rel_utente_zona"
    UTB_id=Column(String(10), primary_key=True) # "in realta' si tratta della seatureSignature della feature sullo shapefile"
    utente_id=Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    amministratore=Column(Integer)
    MetaData.create_all()
    def __repr(self):
        l=lambda x: "amministratore" if x==1 else "generico"
        return "zona: {0}, pe utente_id:{1}, {2}".format(self.UTB_id,self.utente_id,l(self.amministratore))

class rel_utente_dbmmas(Base):
    __tablename__="rel_utente_dbmmas"
    utente_id=Column(Integer,primary_key=True)
    db_id=Column(Integer,primary_key=True)
    amministratore=(Integer)
    MetaData.create_all()
    def __repr(self):
        l=lambda x: "amministratore" if x==1 else "generico"
        return "dbregistrato: {0} per l'utente{1} {2}".format(self.db_id,self.utente_id,l(self.amministratore))

Answer 1

CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS dbName;

Answer 2

I don't know what the canonical way is, but here's a way to check to see if a database exists by checking against the list of databases, and to create it if it doesn't exist.

from sqlalchemy import create_engine

# This engine just used to query for list of databases
mysql_engine = create_engine('mysql://{0}:{1}@{2}:{3}'.format(user, pass, host, port))

# Query for existing databases
existing_databases = mysql_engine.execute("SHOW DATABASES;")
# Results are a list of single item tuples, so unpack each tuple
existing_databases = [d[0] for d in existing_databases]

# Create database if not exists
if database not in existing_databases:
    mysql_engine.execute("CREATE DATABASE {0}".format(database))
    print("Created database {0}".format(database))

# Go ahead and use this engine
db_engine = create_engine('mysql://{0}:{1}@{2}:{3}/{4}'.format(user, pass, host, port, db))

Here's an alternative method if you don't need to know if the database was created or not.

from sqlalchemy import create_engine

# This engine just used to query for list of databases
mysql_engine = create_engine('mysql://{0}:{1}@{2}:{3}'.format(user, pass, host, port))

# Query for existing databases
mysql_engine.execute("CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS {0} ".format(database))

# Go ahead and use this engine
db_engine = create_engine('mysql://{0}:{1}@{2}:{3}/{4}'.format(user, pass, host, port, db))

Answer 3

You can use SQLAlchemy-Utils for that.

pip install sqlalchemy-utils

Then you can do things like

from sqlalchemy_utils import create_database, database_exists
url = 'mysql://{0}:{1}@{2}:{3}'.format(user, pass, host, port)
if not database_exists(url):
    create_database(url)

I found the answer here, it helped me a lot.

Answer 4

To create a mysql database you just connect to the server an create the database:

import sqlalchemy
engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine('mysql://user:password@server') # connect to server
engine.execute("CREATE DATABASE dbname") #create db
engine.execute("USE dbname") # select new db
# use the new db
# continue with your work...

of course your user has to have the permission to create databases.