newbie: working iwth list of tuples

[Kent Johnson]

falcon wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am fairly new to Python (less than a week).  My goal is to write a
> small prototype of a database.  Rather than build it using the typical
> method where one provides selection, projection, aggregation, union,
> intersection, etc. functions, I would like to do it in a more
> 'functional' style (executing a database query by using map, reduce,
> filter, etc.  

You might be interested in a similar attempt:
http://www.jtauber.com/relational_python

Kent