如何获取字符串列的sqlAlchemy长度

考虑这个简单的表定义(使用sqlacalchemy-0.5.6)

from sqlalchemy import *

db = create_engine('sqlite:///tutorial.db')

db.echo = False  # Try changing this to True and see what happens

metadata = MetaData(db)

user = Table('user', metadata,
    Column('user_id', Integer, primary_key=True),
    Column('name', String(40)),
    Column('age', Integer),
    Column('password', String),
)

from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base

class User(declarative_base()):

    __tablename__ = 'user'
    user_id = Column('user_id', Integer, primary_key=True)
    name = Column('name', String(40))

我想知道列名的最大长度是多少,例如从用户表和从用户(声明性类)

print user.name.length
print User.name.length

我尝试过(user.name.type.length),但它引发了异常

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "del.py", line 25, in <module>
    print User.name.type.length
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.5.6-py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/orm/attributes.py", line 135, in __getattr__
    key)
AttributeError: Neither 'InstrumentedAttribute' object nor 'Comparator' object has an attribute 'type'