Is Python Dead?

[Armin Steinhoff]

In article <MNS%6.355$Xs4.225014 at news.pacbell.net>, "Edward says...
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>I have been following Python for five years now, and I am still just as
>frustrated with it as I was in 1996.
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>Python still doesn't have good database support,

IMHO ... if something is dead, then it's your perception :)

Here some database links ... out of the reality.

http://www.oraclepower.com/isapi/orapower.dll?AID=SC&CAT_ID=1166
http://starship.python.net/crew/sturner/informixdb.html
http://object-craft.com.au/projects/sybase/
http://www.druid.net/pygresql/
http://www.zope.org/Members/adustman/Products/MySQLdb
http://www.python.org/topics/database/DatabaseAPI-2.0.html
http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/mxODBC.html
http://www.ziclix.com/zxjdbc/
http://www.chordate.com/gadfly.html
http://clientes.netvisao.pt/luiforra/gvib/
http://www.equi4.com/metakit/python.html
http://pybsddb.sourceforge.net/

Armin

>nor has it grown to be
>useful in the web space as mod_perl.  PyApache has been around longer than
>mod_php, yet php has far surpassed it as a productivity tool in the web
>space.
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>It would seem Python can do everything, yet nothing.  Everyone wants to
>write the next killer application with Python, XML parsers, image
>manipulators, super computer steering modules, yet no one wants to work on
>making Python perform where it matters most.  Python is the best language at
>eclectic stuff, however, poor at bread and butter tasks.
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>Python needs better leadership in areas of its growth.  Python is truly the
>best language in use today, except it still isn't very useful for the
>largest solution sector, database access, and information presentation (web,
>or otherwise).
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>It seems that Python should strive to be great at the ABC's before it
>attempts poetry.
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>--Ed
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