database in python ?

[Steve Holden]

Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud wrote:
> 
>> MySQL is an excellent option is very well documented.  It is also a
>> defacto standard for OpenSource databases.
> 
> 
>     MySQL sucks for anything but very very basic stuff as it supports 
> no  transactions, foreign keys, procedures, triggers, concurrency, etc.
>     Postgresql is a lot better, free, and the psycopg adapter for 
> Postgres is  *very very* fast (a lot faster than the MySQL one) and it 
> has a  dictfetchall() method which is worth its weight in donuts !

While I wouldn't necessarily disagree with your assessment of the 
relative merits of those two databases your information about MySQL is 
somewhat out of date - for example, it has supported transactions for 
almost two years now.

regards
  Steve
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