πŸ’­ python - Concepts of backref and back_populate in SQLalchemy? ... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ !https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51335298/concepts-of-backref-and-back-populate-in-sqlalchemy#answer-59920780 Date: March 6, 2024 External Link stackoverflow.com Today I came across some sqlalchemy models that created some relationships, some used backref some used back_populates. I was stumped why, I had never came accross backref before and I felt skill issues sinking in. backref is considered legacy ──────────────────────────── https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/orm/backref.html As stated in the sqlalchemy docs, backref is a legacy feature. Its shorthand to creating relationships between parent and child, but only adding it to the parent. While this is simpler it introduces some invisible magic. NOTE β”‚ This post is a thought . It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts