On 07 Nov 2006 18:15:44 +0000, larryt@winfirst.com > If you don't need
a connection pool and are using a lower level
> database module than sqlalchemy, perhaps you could explicitly check
> for an existing connection and reconnect if necessary.

AFAIK the only way to check a connection is to do a query and see if
it raises an exception.

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Mike Orr