I am working on one a Python application which uses a FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Pydantic/psycopg2, and Uvicorn stack. The project is structured in a way similar to the “Bigger Applications – Multiple Files” by FastAPI at fastapi[dot]tiangolo[dot]com/tutorial/bigger-applications/, where an SQLAlchemy MetaData named Base is created that contains all of the application’s tables as well as an SQLAlchemy Engine object named engine. In the main function, I then call: