Truly platform-independent DB access in Python?

Bruno Desthuilliers onurb at xiludom.gro
Mon Aug 28 05:36:39 EDT 2006


lbolognini at gmail.com wrote:
> bobrik wrote:
>> I am using the Python DB API for access to MySQL. But it is not
>> platform-independent - I need a module not included in Python by
>> default - python-mysql, and it uses a compiled binary _mysql.so. So it
>> is not platform-independent because for each web-server on different
>> platform, I would have to download it and extra compile it specifically
>> for that platform. Do you know of any Python solution for MySQL access
>> that is 100% platform-independent?
> 
> Probably SqlAlchemy 
> http://www.sqlalchemy.org/

Probably not - I fail to see how SqlAlchemy could talk to MySQL without
the MySQL/Python binding.



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