A tutorial for Database management
Andy Todd
andy47 at halfcooked.com
Wed Jan 9 21:45:06 EST 2002
Franco <bgfra at NOSPAM.hotmail.co> wrote in news:a116e3$kq$1 at wanadoo.fr:
> Where can I find a good tutorial explaining from the beginning how to
> manage a database with Python?
>
> Thanks
Franco,
If you are talking about relational database management systems (Oracle,
Sybase, DB2, SQL Server, etc.) you first point of call should be the
database SIG (http://www.python.org/sigs/db-sig/), which should lead you to
the database topic guide (http://www.python.org/topics/database). This
should, at least, get you started. In particular take a look at the DB-API
spec v2.0 as most of the database modules for Python adhere to it.
If you want to store bits and pieces from your Python programs at the file
system but don't need the overhead of a full relational database you should
look at the pickle and shelve modules in the standard library (sections
3.14 and 3.17 of the Python Library Reference respectively).
For a good intermediate solution, take a look at anydbm (section 7.8 of the
Python Library Reference), which is also very well described in the 2nd
Edition of "Programming Python" by Mark Lutz
(http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/python2/)
HTH,
Andy
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