Is there no single/uniform RDBMS access API module for Python ?

Banibrata Dutta banibrata.dutta at gmail.com
Mon May 12 13:43:35 EDT 2008


Thank you all for the pointers and precise information.
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On 5/12/08, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > >>  Again a noob question.
> > >>  Based on this URL http://wiki.python.org/moin/DatabaseInterfaces ,
> is it
> > >> correct to conclude that there is no RDBMS agnostic, single/uniform
> DB
> > >> access API for Python ?
> > >> Something in the lines of JDBC for Java, DBD for Perl etc. ?
> > >>  How is the RDBMS change handled for solutions which need to work
> with
> > >> different RDBMSs ??
> > >>
> > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/
> > >
> >
> >
> > That appears to be only an API specification. Are there any
> implementations
> > of that ?
>
> For sqlite: http://oss.itsystementwicklung.de/trac/pysqlite/ if you
> have python < 2.5 for 2.5 and up it is included in the stdlib
>
> For mysql: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python
>
> There are a tons more, including postgresql, oracle, etc:
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/DatabaseInterfaces
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
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