Newbie - does Python have DB Independent interface?

[Hardy Merrill]

I come from the Perl world, and am starting to learn Python.
Perl has the DBI module which is a Database Independent interface -
you write programs to the DBI api, and then if you choose to
change your database, your code needs to change very little, or
maybe not at all.

Does Python have anything similar, or must you choose your database
right up front, and write all your code specific to that one
database?

Thanks.

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Hardy Merrill
Senior Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.