[true_religion]

One thing you can do is use SQL alchemy, by duplicating code so you will have Django code to handle things you want to do in Django.... typically anything that touches the admin or model forms, but use SQL Alchemy for everything else.

[ris]

Yyyyeah, but you do end up duplicating potentially quite a lot of code, especially if you're following the (IMHO nice) "fat models" approach.

I think a few people have thrown around the idea of creating a frontend to sqlalchemy to allow it to understand django model definitions and QuerySet semantics but I don't think anything's come of it.