# SQLAlchemy 0.4 Documentation

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### module sqlalchemy.engine.url

Provides the URL class which encapsulates information about a database connection specification.

The URL object is created automatically when create_engine() is called with a string argument; alternatively, the URL is a public-facing construct which can be used directly and is also accepted directly by `create_engine()`.

### Module Functions

def make_url(name_or_url)

Given a string or unicode instance, produce a new URL instance.

The given string is parsed according to the RFC 1738 spec. If an existing URL object is passed, just returns the object.

### class URL(object)

Represent the components of a URL used to connect to a database.

This object is suitable to be passed directly to a `create_engine()` call. The fields of the URL are parsed from a string by the `module-level make_url()` function. the string format of the URL is an RFC-1738-style string.

Attributes on URL include:

drivername
  the name of the database backend. This name will correspond to a module in sqlalchemy/databases or a third party plug-in.
username
  The user name for the connection.
password
  database password.
host
  The name of the host.
port
  The port number.
database
  The database.
query
  A dictionary containing key/value pairs representing the URL's query string.

def __init__(self, drivername, username=None, password=None, host=None, port=None, database=None, query=None)

Construct a new `URL`.

def get_dialect(self)

Return the SQLAlchemy database dialect class corresponding to this URL's driver name.

def translate_connect_args(self, names=[], **kw)

Translate url attributes into a dictionary of connection arguments.

Returns attributes of this url (host, database, username, password, port) as a plain dictionary. The attribute names are used as the keys by default. Unset or false attributes are omitted from the final dictionary.

**kw

  Optional, alternate key names for url attributes:

      # return 'username' as 'user'
      username='user'

      # omit 'database'
      database=None

names
  Deprecated. A list of key names. Equivalent to the keyword usage, must be provided in the order above.

def __eq__(self, other)
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