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+"""SQLAlchemy Metadata and Session object"""
+from sqlalchemy import MetaData
+from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session, sessionmaker
+
+__all__ = ['Session', 'metadata']
+
+# SQLAlchemy session manager. Updated by model.init_model()
+Session = scoped_session(sessionmaker())
+
+# Global metadata. If you have multiple databases with overlapping table
+# names, you'll need a metadata for each database
+metadata = MetaData()