Is Python Dead?

[Steve Holden]

"Steve Williams" <stevewilliams at wwc.com> wrote in message
news:3B448C81.4DAC7DD at wwc.com...
> Resty Cena wrote:
>
> > "Edward B. Wilson II" <ed at ewilson.com> wrote in message
news:<MNS%6.355$Xs4.225014 at news.pacbell.net>...
> > > I have been following Python for five years now, and I am still just
as
> > > frustrated with it as I was in 1996.
> > >
> > > Python still doesn't have good database support,
> >
> > I, too, have been following Python since 1996, waiting all the while
> > to make it easy for me to do database programming.
>
> [snip]
>
> How about this little jewel returned by a Google search on "Python DB2
AIX"?
>
> From
>
>      http://webevents.broadcast.com/ibm/developer/050901/display_qa.asp
>
>
>      Question 10:
>           DB/2 can be used whit PHP or Pyton ?
>      Answered by Nanda Pilaka:
>           DB2's supports C/C++/Java/COBOL/REXX/Basic/Perl/Fortran
currently.
>           Python is not supported.
>
>
> We now return you to the whitespace discussion currently in progress. . .
>
The DB SIG does list a DB/2 module, but the ftp server it links to doesn't
allow access. Does anyone actually USE DB/2 with Python?

The DB SIG module list seems a little out of date, and a monthly mail
archive of over 20KB seems to be the exception rather than the rule.

regards
 Steve
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