How do you connect to an existing database table in peewee?

Question

Much of the tutorials I've read show how to connect to the database and create a new table. Maybe I am wrong or misunderstanding , Ive reading the documents here: peewee offical

It shows how to connect to a db like so:

mysql_db = MySQLDatabase('my_app', user='app', password='db_password',
                         host='10.1.0.8', port=3306)

and it shows how to create a new table like so:

class User(Model):
    username = CharField()
    join_date = DateTimeField()
    about_me = TextField()

But I want to know if I already have a database table with data in it how do I connect to it so I can add new records to it?

Thanks

Answer 1

Peewee does include a utility to look at an existing database and create model code to interact with that database. Here's a link describing it in the documentation: https://peewee.readthedocs.io/en/latest/peewee/playhouse.html#pwiz-a-model-generator . I haven't used this so can't vouch for how well it works.