I'm pretty sure that SqlAlchemy has caused more grief and frustration than any other single library. After all if I didn't know about the excellence of SqlAlche

I'm pretty sure that SqlAlchemy has caused more grief and frustration than any other single library. After all if I didn't know about the excellence of SqlAlchemy, maybe I wouldn't get so cross when I have to do anything non-trivial with the Django ORM ;) Joking aside, SwlAlchemy is very impressive software, and zzzeek deserves all this praise and more. Every time that there's one of these anti-ORM articles I feel like SqlAlchemy pre-emtively addressed all the substantive criticisms in its flexible, well layered, design. (And in the interests of fairness, Django's ORM is also very good at making simple things simple).