Python does not play well with others

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Paul Rubin schrieb:
> "Diez B. Roggisch" <deets at nospam.web.de> writes:
>> And they certainly require special treatment like putting them in the
>> classpath, setting up the project directory and the like - no simple
>> import will work out of the box, as it would witch python standard lib
>> drivers.
> 
> Well, that's nowhere near as big a deal as having yet another set of
> vendors or maintainer to deal with.  Minimizing configuration is nice,
> but getting your software from as few different sources as possible is
> also a big win.

Ehm... .it _is_ another set of vendors and maintainers. It's just that 
they are standard jdbc-compliant. As the python modules are DB API 2.0 
compliant - hopefully.

A difference might be that most (not all) of the jdbc-drivers are 
java-only, and not have any c-dependencies. Well - nice to have, but 
simple inclusion of existing drivers doesn't remove that. Only a 
complete rewrite in python would.

Diez