SQLAlchemy engine

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engine = create_engine('sqlite:///test.db')               # relative path
engine = create_engine('sqlite:////full/path/to/test.db') # full path
engine = create_engine('sqlite://')                       # in memory database

PostgreSQL

engine = create_engine('postgresql://user:password@hostname/dbname')
engine = create_engine('postgresql+psycopg2://user:password@hostname/dbname')

MySQL

engine = create_engine("mysql://user:password@hostname/dbname", encoding='latin1') # defaults to utf-8