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@@ -4,14 +4,21 @@ parents with a particular child object.
The examples all use the declarative extension along with
declarative mixins. Each one presents the identical use
-case at the end - two clases, ``Customer`` and ``Supplier``, both
+case at the end - two classes, ``Customer`` and ``Supplier``, both
subclassing the ``HasAddresses`` mixin, which ensures that the
parent class is provided with an ``addresses`` collection
which contains ``Address`` objects.
+The configurations include:
+
+* ``table_per_related.py`` - illustrates a distinct table per related collection.
+* ``table_per_association.py`` - illustrates a shared collection table, using a
+ table per association.
+* ``discriminator_on_association.py`` - shared collection table and shared
+ association table, including a discriminator column.
+
The ``discriminator_on_association.py`` script in particular is a modernized
version of the "polymorphic associations" example present in older versions of
-SQLAlchemy.
-
+SQLAlchemy, originally from the blog post at http://techspot.zzzeek.org/2007/05/29/polymorphic-associations-with-sqlalchemy/.
""" \ No newline at end of file