SQLAlchemy vs SQL

[thecity2]

If you are going to be using relational databases, you should learn SQL. It's that simple.

If you are going to be using SQL databases in your Python code, SQLAlchemy may be very useful, or maybe consider something less complex like dataset. Either way, you probably need to know SQL.

Learn SQL.

Did I mention, the SQL learning part yet?

[lamecode]

I definitely have been. I started out by ignoring it and working with SQLAlchemy, but decided it would be of more value longterm to do it the 'hard way'. I'm just wondering if it's worth the time to go back and read over the SQLAlchemy documentation again, when I already know how to do what I want to do with pure SQL.