Which persistence is for me?

Jean-Paul Calderone exarkun at divmod.com
Thu Nov 1 07:57:39 EDT 2007


On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:47:25 -0400, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>I need to organize the results of some experiments.  Seems some sort of
>database is in order.
>
>I just took a look at DBAPI and the new sqlite interface in python2.5.  I
>have no experience with sql.  I am repulsed by e.g.:
>c.execute("""insert into stocks
>          values ('2006-01-05','BUY','RHAT',100,35.14)""")
>
>ewww.  How unpythonic.  I don't want to use a string to specify what
>function to execute.  I want to call a function (c.insert?).
>
>Is there some other interface/database that I might like better?
>

There are a lot of choices.  Take a look, for example, at storm:

    https://storm.canonical.com/

Jean-Paul



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