NEWBIE: Confussed about Python!

[Steve Holden]

"maxm" <maxm at mxm.dk> wrote ...
> "Max Adams" <RubberDucky703 at hotmail.com> wrote
>
> > So there are libraries to access MySQL and MS Access?  I assume that
only
> > the latter would work under windows. - Can these both be used together
in
> > the same script.  From what you have said I see no reason why not -
> correct.
>
> MySql has ODBC drivers, so works nicely under Windows.
>
Not only that, there is also a MySQLdb module that allows you to connect to
MySQL databases on other machines, so a Windows Python program could (for
example) read a local Jet (Access) database and write to a remote MySQL
database. Python's pretty flexible, really.

> > So it would be feasible for a client running Linux to connect to a NT
web
> > server over port 80 and then using the python CGI script pull data from
> both
> > databases (say list tables in a MySQL db and a MS Acc DB [using ADO i
> > assume]).  Would this work?
>
> Shure.
>
Indeed.

> > Most of what you have said (although useful) is stuff i though was
related
> > to perl.  How is python different to perl?  Are the two miles apart? -
> i'll
> > look through google but i would still appreciate any other input.
>
> You can do the same stuff in Perl.
>
> Actually I programmed in Perl for over a year before I got over my
lukewarm
> feeling over the indentation issue, and tried out Python. I deeply regret
> that! Seeing how much I learn and try every year in Python I kick myself
in
> the lower back, and imagine how much longer I could have been if I hadn't
> wasted a year on that other language.
>
> And now I find the indentation one of the great things about it.
>
> Working a lot in Zope which is sometimes less than adequately documented,
I
> love being able to read the source and not having to worry about coding
> styles.
>
Perl is, of course, a powerful language, with much available code. I
personally find Python suits me better because it's much easier to
comprehend somebody else's code -- not to mention my own six months after
writing it.

regards
 Steve
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