Python and DB support (was: Re: Is Python Dead?)

[David Bolen]

Roman Suzi <rnd at onego.ru> writes:

> On 2 Jul 2001, David Bolen wrote:
> 
> >Roman Suzi <rnd at onego.ru> writes:
> >
> >> However, my collegues were not satisfied with it. One somplain was that in
> >> ASP/IIS it is "very easy" to receive a "recordset" from database and then
> >> apply it in different situations in the ASP-page, because recordset is an
> >> object and even subqueries could be made without quering DB again.
> >
> >Just curious, but did your colleagues try using Python's COM interface
> >to ADO to retrieve an actual recordset object that they could
> >manipulate the same in Python as in other ASP languages?
> 
> Aha! Now I could understand what is the brake of Python library
> development. Most of Python users are Windows users. And they
> have COM for whatever is in their system.

Um, I don't necessarily agree about the breakdown of Python users.

But you should realize that the reason I pointed this out is that your
statement above implies that _you_ (or at the very least your
colleagues) are working under Windows, or else they wouldn't be
comparing to ASP/IIS and ADO recordssets (which are Windows only).

If that's not true, then they are comparing apples to oranges, and the
difference is the Unix versus Windows/COM models, which has little to
do with Python or its database access methods. :-)

> We mostly have Linux servers, so COM+ADO is no option. The point was not
> to choose between Windows and Linux, ASP was choosen to serve particular
> purpose, for the database already implemented in Microsoft land.

Then I'm having trouble seeing the lack of satisfaction of your
colleagues having anything at all do with Python, and more to do with
a lack of satisfaction with a missing object model under Linux that
they liked under Windows.  In other words, I don't think the problem
here is a Python database related issue.

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-- David
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