postgreSQL python bindings - which one?

Philip Semanchuk philip at semanchuk.com
Sat Jun 27 13:23:04 EDT 2009


On Jun 27, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 21:10 -0700, Horace Blegg wrote:
>> Hi, I'm having a hard time deciding which set of PGSQL python  
>> bindings
>> to go with. I don't know much about SQL to begin with, so the collage
>> of packages of somewhat daunting. I'm starting a pet project in order
>> to teach my self more, but I want to avoid getting off on the wrong
>> foot and picking a package that is not going to be actively updated  
>> in
>> the future.
>>
>> There seem to be several implementations
>> * http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-pgsql/   - last update in 08.
>> * http://www.pygresql.org/   - version 4.0 was released beginning of
>> this year, update before that was sometime in 06
>> ( http://www.pygresql.org/changelog.html )
>> * http://python.projects.postgresql.org/   - first release was this
>> month?
>>
>> The last one of those three looks to be the most promising, but I  
>> just
>> can't tell for sure. Your input is appreciated :)
>>
>
> psycopg2: http://initd.org/pub/software/psycopg/


+1

Although I'm not using it anymore, I had good success with psycopg2  
and strongly recommend it.







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