Google App Engine’s datastore API is a continuation of a trend that the outstanding Python SQLAlchemy started, namely to re-purpose the class, an object-oriented concept, as a declaration of a table. Take, for example, the SA example
Base = declarative_base()
class User(Base):
__tablename__ = 'users'
id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
name = Column(String)
fullname = Column(String)
password = Column(String),
which by all standards seems primitive. I have to call declarative_base? And what are those underscores doing in my pristine class? Can’t you pluralize the table for me? I have to sit down, I have a headache now. SQL is hard.