Using Python for business app development

[Armin Steinhoff]

woodsplitter at rocketmail.com (David Rushby) wrote in message news:<7876a8ea.0212240823.43f03f0b at posting.google.com>...
> "Joe 'shmengie' Brown" <joe at overdrivepc.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1040661271.29967.python-list at python.org>...
> > I'm curious as to why you chose PostgreSQL for the database engine.
> > 
> > I've been considering evaluating it, but for my application, I need to
> > support windows platform.  Since Mysql has a nice windows client base, this
> > is the natural choice for me.
> > 
> > Furthermore, transactional aspects aren't high on my proirity list.
> > 
> > (heh, I'm trying to convince myself I haven't made the wrong decision)
> 
> So why not use Firebird ( http://firebirdsql.org/ ) or SAPDB (
> http://sapdb.org/ ) ?  They both have Python interfaces:
> - http://kinterbasdb.sourceforge.net/ for Firebird
> - the Python section of http://sapdb.org/sap_db_program.htm for SAPDB

I have to add SQLite ... it's a small embedded SQL database with a
Python interface.

Regarding the GUI ... I have bests experiences mad with PyQt. It works
very stable on LINUX _and_ Windows -> and it is very well documented.

Armin



  


> 
> There's no need to stoop to MySQL if you require Windows support.