A very brief introduction to SQLAlchemy, covering the core, ORM, database concepts and a high-level comparison to the Django ORM. IPython notebook demo content is at http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/90s3abt64vxd4r4/SQLAlchemy.ipynb?token_hash=AAEWmGa8Kng0qijeH29NnPtjblOCTe387vRUxLDOpbyCKg&dl=1