import sqlalchemy from sqlalchemy import create_engine from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker from app import config engine = create_engine( config.DB_URI, connect_args={"application_name": config.DB_CONN_NAME} ) connection = engine.connect() Session = scoped_session(sessionmaker(bind=connection)) # Session is actually a proxy, more info on # https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/orm/contextual.html?highlight=scoped_session#implicit-method-access Session: sqlalchemy.orm.Session