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    <p>I am storing a bunch of patent data in a MySQL database and interacting with it via SQLAlchemy. I have a collection inside the Patent class that represents the list of assignees (the companies that were assigned the patent):</p> <pre><code>assignees = relationship('Company', secondary=patent_company_table, backref='patents') </code></pre> <p>I am processing some of the objects stored in the database and for a Patent object <code>p</code>, I want to delete some assignee <code>a</code> (a Company object) from <code>p</code>'s assignee list. Based off of <a href="http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/orm/session.html#deleting-from-collections" rel="nofollow">http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/orm/session.html#deleting-from-collections</a> , it seems that calling <code>s.delete(a)</code> will actually delete the Company object <code>a</code>. I simply want to remove assignee <code>a</code> from the list of assignees for <code>p</code> (i.e. remove a row in the patent_company_table), NOT actually delete the Company object, because <code>a</code> might be in another Patent object's list of assignees.</p> <p>I tried creating a new list <code>new_assignees</code> that only includes the assignees from <code>p</code> besides <code>a</code> and then called:</p> <pre><code>p.assignees = new_assignees s.add(p) </code></pre> <p>This unfortunately does not actually mark <code>p</code> as dirty, so I assume it would not affect the database.</p> <p>Do you have any suggestions for how to remove an object from the collection, deleting the row in the patent_company_table as opposed to deleting the object from the Company table?</p> <p>Thank you.</p> <h2>UPDATE</h2> <p>Here is a snippet of the code:</p> <pre><code>assignees = patent.assignees for assignee in assignees: if assignee in duplicate_company_to_default: patent.assignees.remove(assignee) default_company = duplicate_company_to_default[assignee] if default_company not in assignees: added_patent_count += 1 patent.assignees.append(default_company) </code></pre> <p>After looping through all of the patents, <code>added_patent_count = 983672</code> but there are no objects in <code>session.dirty()</code>. Do I need to add manually to the session after modifying via <code>append</code> or <code>remove</code>?</p>
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