Libkosokoso -- simple tagging with sqlalchemy. ============================================== Libkosokoso provides compact and table-stingy tags to sqlalchemy-backed objects. Usage ----- :: import libkosokoso as kk class Foo(kk.Taggable): __tablename__ = 'foos' a = Foo() a.tags.append('tag1') a.tags.extend(['tag2', 'tag3']) and so forth. It's also possible to add kk.Tag objects directly to the tags property, but they'll be treated as strings. To access the tag objects, do something like:: return [ta.tag_obj for ta in a.kk_tag_associations] This will bypass the association proxy and return a list of Tag objects. Design considerations --------------------- My basic reasoning was that at some point I'd have to go and muck about in the database by hand, and I wanted a structure that was easy to perceive and modify. I explicitly did not aim for efficiency. The underlying code is object-happy and probably extremely inefficient. Why is it called that? ---------------------- "kosokoso" is Japanese onomatopoeia for sneaking or whispering secretly. I picked the name because tags always feel like a kind of buzzing side channel to me. (Originally, it was "guzuguzu", which is, like, slow. This took me way longer to write than I was expecting.)