Create table with rows using SQLAlchemy?

Question

I want to create tables containing rows once, when the database is created. Is there a 'native' way how to do this rather than having to use the session and check if the rows exist before adding them?

This is sample code I'm using..

/database.py

from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker

from ..const import (
    DATABASE_URL
)

engine = create_engine(DATABASE_URL, connect_args={"check_same_thread": False})
SessionLocal = sessionmaker(autocommit=False, autoflush=False, bind=engine)

Base = declarative_base()

/dataset/menu/model.py

from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, exc

from ...database import Base, SessionLocal


class Menu(Base):
    __tablename__ = "menus"

    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, index=True)
    name = Column(String, unique=True, index=True)
    title = Column(String)
    icon = Column(String)

/main.py

from .database import database

database.Base.metadata.create_all(bind=database.engine)