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by mattrp 2383 days ago
If you’re in the hacking mode - what do you think of taking the Django orm and grafting it onto fast api - sort of like a stand-alone sqlalchemy but with all the ease and power or django’s querysets...
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Django ORM is not async so using it with FastAPI would block the event loop. I guess you could wrap the calls in sync_to_async from asgiref but it wouldn't be pretty.

Another option is using something like Tom Christie's orm project (https://github.com/encode/orm), which is a wrapper on top of sqlachemy with a django like interface.

FastAPI runs blocking IO/sync functions in a separate thread pool to work around this issue.
Thanks for the suggestion - very interesting.