Cool recipe that I found online for making sql alchemy objects dictable

gistfile1.py

from sqlalchemy.orm import object_mapper

class DictableAlchemy(object):
    def __iter__(self):
        self._iter = iter(object_mapper(self).columns)
        return self

    def next(self):
        name = self._iter.next().name
        return name, getattr(self, name)

# Wrap into the declarative base as so:
metadata = MetaData()
ModelBase = declarative_base(metadata=metadata, cls=DictableAlchemy)