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+from sqlalchemy import create_engine
+from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
+
+from models import Base
+
+DB_PATH = "sqlite:///wordsearch.db"
+
+
+def get_engine(db_url=None):
+    return create_engine(db_url or DB_PATH)
+
+
+def get_session_factory(engine):
+    return sessionmaker(bind=engine)
+
+
+def init_db(engine):
+    Base.metadata.create_all(engine)