While I very much appreciate SQLAlchemy and other sophisticated ORM libraries, I always wished there was an intermediate layer of abstraction, something that would be more readable than plain string-based queries, but not require a full mapping library to do so. After several iterations and experiments in my own projects (personal and professional), SQLWitch was the result. I just want a way to easily write and modify SQL with Python, not in Python. I want the right level of abstraction. The ultimate goal is to avoid abstracting SQL away from the code, but instead just making it a whole lot easier to write it.