from sqlalchemy import create_engine from sqlalchemy.pool import NullPool from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session, sessionmaker from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base from settings import SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI engine = create_engine('%s' % SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI, convert_unicode=True, pool_size=20, max_overflow=0, poolclass=NullPool) #engine = create_engine('mysql://avmonitor:avmonitorp123@localhost:3306/avmonitor', convert_unicode=True) db_session = scoped_session(sessionmaker(autocommit=False, autoflush=False, bind=engine)) Base = declarative_base() Base.query = db_session.query_property() def init_db(): # import all modules here that might define models so that # they will be registered properly on the metadata. Otherwise # you will have to import them first before calling init_db() import models Base.metadata.create_all(bind=engine) .