Out of the box database support

Jean-Paul Calderone exarkun at divmod.com
Mon Jul 3 09:10:21 EDT 2006


On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 13:41:24 +0100, Alex Biddle <heuristic at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hey there.
>
>I was wondering whether Python had any support out-of-the-box for
>database functionality, or database-like functionality.
>
>For instance a lot of shared hosts have Python installed, but not the
>MySQL extension, the flexible of these would install it, but most of
>the time they wouldn't bother.
>
>I was really looking for something like SQLite which ships bundled
>with PHP these days. Or any standard way of connecting to generic
>databases out of the box, i.e. MySQL.

See these Python 2.5 docs:

  http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/module-sqlite3.html

Jean-Paul



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