creating new objects with references to them

[Steve Holden]

JohnJSal wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
> 
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>>     del rec[7]
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> 
> Hmmm, but what if the record can remain open, changes can be made, and
> then saved again to the same object? I suppose it isn't necessary to
> delete them, right? Man, this stuff gets complicated....
> 
Right. Of course, once you've written a record to the database for the 
first time you need a flag to tell you it exists so that further changes 
are made with UPDATE statements. But ultimately it's just a matter of 
synchronizing the contents of an internal data structure with the 
contents of a set of windows (typically dialogs) and a database.

Another option is to use an object-relational mapper like SQLObject or 
SQLalchemy to hide most of the database ferkling.

The complexity is known as "real life". Get used to it ;-)

regards
  Steve
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