I think you should try out the ORM outside the context of your application to get some familiarity. I don't think you should foist it on your existing app for n

I think you should try out the ORM outside the context of your application to get some familiarity. I don't think you should foist it on your existing app for no reason. Learning SQLAlchemy is a solid investment if you are working with Python and are going to be working with relational databases.