""" https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/tutorial/index.html#unified-tutorial https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/tutorial/metadata.html#table-reflection """ from sqlalchemy import MetaData from sqlalchemy import Table from sqlalchemy import create_engine metadata = MetaData() dbname = "sqlite+pysqlite:///some_table.db" engine = create_engine(dbname, echo=True, future=True) some_table = Table("some_table", metadata, autoload_with=engine) if __name__ == "__main__": print(f"{some_table!r}")