SQLAlchemy tries to provide a pythonic wrapper for most database operations, in an implementation-agnostic way, which can be a convenience but also makes it lar

SQLAlchemy tries to provide a pythonic wrapper for most database operations, in an implementation-agnostic way, which can be a convenience but also makes it large and complex. It really isn't the thing you want to use if what you want is to just send a plain snippet of SQL to your database. There isn't a simple 'requests-for-sql' type of thing, until now.