Object-Relational Mapping

Often you might want to simplify accessing your data, and prefer a simple,

object oriented way to manipulate your data, instead of raw SQL queries.

This is solved by Object Relational Mapping (ORM) applications. Sometimes these

are integrated with your framework of choice, but you might use them without

general frameworks too. Probably, the most widely used stand-alone ORM written

for Python is `SQLAlchemy <http://www.sqlalchemy.org/>`_.