from sqlalchemy import create_engine, MetaData, Table, Column, ForeignKey
from sqlalchemy.dialects.mysql.base import VARCHAR, LONGTEXT, INTEGER
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base

engine = create_engine("mysql+mysqldb://root:@localhost/mydb")
connection = engine.connect()

Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
session = Session()
Base = declarative_base()
metadata = MetaData()

class User(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'User'
    __abstract__ = True
    id = Column('id', INTEGER(display_width=11), primary_key=True, nullable=False)
    email = Column('email', VARCHAR(charset='utf8mb4', collation='utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci', length=100), unique=True)
    password = Column('password', VARCHAR(charset='utf8mb4', collation='utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci', length=45))
    name = Column('name', VARCHAR(charset='utf8mb4', collation='utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci', length=100))

Base.metadata.create_all(engine)

add_user = User(email = "testing@testing.com",
            password = 'testing',
            name = 'testing')
session.add(add_user)
session.commit()

AttributeError: 'User' object has no attribute '_sa_instance_state'

 During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

 raise exc.UnmappedInstanceError(instance)
 sqlalchemy.orm.exc.UnmappedInstanceError: Class '__main__.User' is not mapped

class User(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'User'
    __abstract__ = True
    id = Column('id', INTEGER(display_width=11), primary_key=True, nullable=False)
    email = Column('email', VARCHAR(charset='utf8mb4', collation='utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci', length=100), unique=True)
    password = Column('password', VARCHAR(charset='utf8mb4', collation='utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci', length=45))
    name = Column('name', VARCHAR(charset='utf8mb4', collation='utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci', length=100))

class AUser(User):
    pass

if __name__ == '__main__':
    Base.metadata.drop_all(bind=engine)
    Base.metadata.create_all(bind=engine)

    add_user = AUser(email = "testing@testing.com",
                password = 'testing',
                name = 'testing')
    session.add(add_user)
    session.commit()