""" Illustrates various methods of associating multiple types of 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 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. * ``generic_fk.py`` - imitates the approach taken by popular frameworks such as Django and Ruby on Rails to create a so-called "generic foreign key". The ``discriminator_on_association.py`` and ``generic_fk.py`` scripts are modernized versions of recipes presented in the 2007 blog post `Polymorphic Associations with SQLAlchemy <http://techspot.zzzeek.org/2007/05/29/polymorphic-associations-with-sqlalchemy/>`_. . """