from pyramid.response import Response from pyramid.view import view_config from sqlalchemy.exc import DBAPIError from ..models import MyModel @view_config(route_name='home', renderer='../templates/mytemplate.jinja2') def my_view(request): try: query = request.dbsession.query(MyModel) one = query.filter(MyModel.name == 'one').first() except DBAPIError: return Response(db_err_msg, content_type='text/plain', status=500) return {'one': one, 'project': 'Ordr'} db_err_msg = """\ Pyramid is having a problem using your SQL database. The problem might be caused by one of the following things: 1. You may need to run the "initialize_ordr_db" script to initialize your database tables. Check your virtual environment's "bin" directory for this script and try to run it. 2. Your database server may not be running. Check that the database server referred to by the "sqlalchemy.url" setting in your "development.ini" file is running. After you fix the problem, please restart the Pyramid application to try it again. """