Bulk update in SQLAlchemy Core using WHERE

Question

I have managed to work with the bulk insert in SQLAlchemy like:

conn.execute(addresses.insert(), [ 
   {'user_id': 1, 'email_address' : 'jack@yahoo.com'},
   {'user_id': 1, 'email_address' : 'jack@msn.com'},
   {'user_id': 2, 'email_address' : 'www@www.org'},
   {'user_id': 2, 'email_address' : 'wendy@aol.com'},
])

What I need now is something equivalent for update. I have tried this:

conn.execute(addresses.insert(), [ 
   {'user_id': 1, 'email_address' : 'jack@yahoo.com', 'id':12},
   {'user_id': 1, 'email_address' : 'jack@msn.com', 'id':13},
   {'user_id': 2, 'email_address' : 'www@www.org', 'id':14},
   {'user_id': 2, 'email_address' : 'wendy@aol.com', 'id':15},
])

expecting that each row gets updated according to the 'id' field, but it doesn't work. I assume that it is because I have not specified a WHERE clause, but I don't know how to specify a WHERE clause using data that is included in the dictionary.

Can somebody help me?

Answer 1

Read the Updating and Deleting Rows with Core section of the tutorial. The following code should get you started:

from sqlalchemy import bindparam
stmt = addresses.update().\
    where(addresses.c.id == bindparam('_id')).\
    values({
        'user_id': bindparam('user_id'),
        'email_address': bindparam('email_address'),
    })

conn.execute(stmt, [
    {'user_id': 1, 'email_address' : 'jack@yahoo.com', '_id':1},
    {'user_id': 1, 'email_address' : 'jack@msn.com', '_id':2},
    {'user_id': 2, 'email_address' : 'www@www.org', '_id':3},
    {'user_id': 2, 'email_address' : 'wendy@aol.com', '_id':4},
])