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

[David Bolen]

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?

At least under Windows, it would seem that having solid ODBC and COM
support should pretty much cover in Python anything you'd do elsewhere.

On other environments, direct support for a particular database is
likely to be more desirable, as it's more typical in those
environments, but as you've noted, there's a plethora of support
modules for various databases - some at various levels.

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-- David
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