SQLAHelper is a small library for SQLAlchemy web applications. It was written for Pyramid but is not framework-specific. It acts as a container for the application's contextual session, engines, and declarative base. This avoids circular dependencies between the application's model modules, and allows cooperating third-party libraries to use the session, base, and transaction. The contextual session is initialized with the ZopeTransactionExtension so that it can be used with transaction managers. This can be disabled if desired. **SQLAHelper is under a maintenance freeze.** If you would like to maintain it, please bring it up on pylons-discuss. The repository has significant updates beyond version 1, including a streamlined version 2 API, but no release is scheduled. Documentation is in the 'docs' directory. (c) 2010-2012 Mike Orr and contributors Copying and derivations permitted under the MIT license, see LICENSE.txt.