- Added free-form `DDL` statements, can be executed standalone or tied to the DDL create/drop lifecycle of Tables and MetaData. [ticket:903]

- Added DDL event hooks, triggers callables before and after create / drop.

1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/util.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/util.py
index c0d0c7eed..af1411988 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/util.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/util.py
@@ -125,6 +125,44 @@ else:
                 self[key] = value = self.creator(key)
                 return value
 
+try:
+    from collections import defaultdict
+except ImportError:
+    class defaultdict(dict):
+        def __init__(self, default_factory=None, *a, **kw):
+            if (default_factory is not None and
+                not hasattr(default_factory, '__call__')):
+                raise TypeError('first argument must be callable')
+            dict.__init__(self, *a, **kw)
+            self.default_factory = default_factory
+        def __getitem__(self, key):
+            try:
+                return dict.__getitem__(self, key)
+            except KeyError:
+                return self.__missing__(key)
+        def __missing__(self, key):
+            if self.default_factory is None:
+                raise KeyError(key)
+            self[key] = value = self.default_factory()
+            return value
+        def __reduce__(self):
+            if self.default_factory is None:
+                args = tuple()
+            else:
+                args = self.default_factory,
+            return type(self), args, None, None, self.iteritems()
+        def copy(self):
+            return self.__copy__()
+        def __copy__(self):
+            return type(self)(self.default_factory, self)
+        def __deepcopy__(self, memo):
+            import copy
+            return type(self)(self.default_factory,
+                              copy.deepcopy(self.items()))
+        def __repr__(self):
+            return 'defaultdict(%s, %s)' % (self.default_factory,
+                                            dict.__repr__(self))
+
 def to_list(x, default=None):
     if x is None:
         return default