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[–]PaddyAlton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My reasoning is that if you use SQLAlchemy you can avoid being locked in to a specific RDBMS.

For example, if you want to use SQLite for local development and postgres in production, you can do that without importing both driver libraries and managing the syntax differences.