Is there something easier than ORM?

[Michele Simionato]

On Feb 17, 1:27 pm, 一首诗 <newpt... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Recently I am studying some python ORM libraries, such as sqlalchemy.
>
> These are very powerful technologies to handle database.  But I think
> my project are not complicated to enough to benefit from a complete
> ORM system.
>
> What I really want, is some easy ways to load data from database, and
> change rows of data to list of named tuple, then I could send these
> data to my client application.
>
> I don't think I want these subtle behavior such as lazy load, auto
> update, ect. in ORM.
>
> So is there some libraries like that?
>
> Or is there some tools that could generate code from database scheme
> as I want?

I think there is room for a poor man toolkit, something in between
SQLAlchemy and raw DB API.
However, I am not aware of any, and for the moment I am using a custom
made solution.