Dabo in 30 seconds?

[James Stroud]

On Saturday 30 July 2005 06:16 pm, EP wrote:
> Ed Leafe wrote in response to the "Python vs. Access VBA" thread:
> > 	You might want to look at Dabo, which is a database application
> > framework for Python. In about 30 seconds you can create an application
> > that queries a database, displays the results, and allows for
> > editing/updating/inserting/deleting records.
>
> This is a nice pitch.  Can you provide simple, example code that does this?
>
> As a non-professional programmer (I write to create my own business tools,
> and for the enjoyment, but no one pays for my code) the ability to generate
> quick db apps like this would constitute a real win, even if the 30 seconds
> is a "Guido 30 seconds" and it takes me 5 minutes (which might
> underestimate Guido by some magnitudes).

I am going to go ahead and throw out Dabo with all of the others that claim 
quick development of an application. You try them and then you get bugs, 
bugs, bugs. Or they don't compile without 16000 dependencies. Forget it. My 
advice is to choose something, one thing, that is REAL standard, and in the 
standard library (e.g. Tkinter). And go for it. Learn it inside and out--it 
will always be there for you. It is the green, green grass of home, not that 
greener grass on the other side of the hill. Don't listen to the guys that 
says this one is crap or that one isn't. Dropping one and learning another is 
just pain. I think this is a developer trick, to keep you at war with 
yourself. The more you have internal conflict the more you will be looking 
for an App framework to solve your inner problems, and that keeps these guys 
in business--the business of wrecking souls.

Go with yourself.

James

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James Stroud
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