How do I annotate the columns in my model? The following seems to mostly work: class MyModel(Base): __tablename__: str = 'mytable' id: str = db.Column(db.String(32), primary_key=True) test: int = db.Column(db.Integer, index=True) is_valid: bool = db.Column(db.Boolean, default=True) Those type hints such as id: str remove the errors but a warning still appears for each column saying: Expression of type "Column[Text]" cannot be assigned to declared type "str" "Column[Text]" is incompatible with "str" PylancereportGeneralTypeIssues This is Pylance, I messed around with the mypy stuff recommended in this SO question but it didn't really help and also I imagine I shouldn't be mixing mypy with Pylance (which is pyright no?). I've also tried for eg. id: db.Column[Text] but that seemed to confuse the rest of my code elsewhere... Continue reading...