How to define an unsigned integer in SQLAlchemy

SQLAlchemy types (such as Integer) seem to try to abide by the standard SQL data types. Since an “unsigned integer” is not a standard data type, you won’t see something like an UnsignedInteger or Integer(unsigned=True).

In cases such as these (where a database such as MySQL has a data type that is itself not a standard data type or has options that are not standard) you can access these types/options by getting dialect-specific types. For MySQL, you can access these types through the sqlalchemy.dialects.mysql module, like so…

from sqlalchemy.dialects.mysql import INTEGER

class Users(db.Model):
    id           = db.Column(INTEGER(unsigned=True), primary_key=True)
    UserName     = db.Column(db.String(40))
    FirstName    = db.Column(db.String(40))
    LastName     = db.Column(db.String(40))
    EmailAddress = db.Column(db.String(255))
    Password     = db.Column(db.String(40))