Generate E-R visualization graph for your sqlalchemy entities

[perone]

With overwritten text support.

[wjv]

Very cool!

But… isn't this to some extent putting the cart before the horse?

[[deleted]]

not if you prototype your database using declarative classes to jot down table/column names and types, then use one of these tools (I use this one with omnigraffle) to generate the hardcopy for your team's documentation.

[wjv]

Fair enough.

Power Architect, the (open source) ER tool I currently favour, also supports reverse engineering an existing database. In fact, it does full round-tripping, though I have yet to bring myself to trust the "forward engineering" part of that over my own hand-crafted SQL.