The way to develope a graphical application to manage a Postgres database

Csanyi Pal csanyipal at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 17:42:48 EDT 2012


Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> writes:

> On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:24:36 +0200, Csanyi Pal <csanyipal at gmail.com>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>> 
>> I'm searching for a way to develope a Python graphical application for a
>> Postgresql database.
>>
> 	A predefined database, or a general access module?

A predefined, already existing database.

>> I have installed on my Debian GNU/Linux testing/sid system many python
>> packages, among others:
>> eric, geany, idle, ninja-ide, pida (it doesn't work here), python2.7,
>> python-easygui, python-forgetsql, python-gasp, python-glade2,
>> python-gobject-2, python-gtk2, python-pip, python-pygresql,
>> python-pyside.qtsql, python-subversion, python-tk, python-wxglade,
>> spyder, python3-psycopg2, python-psycopg2, XRCed.
>>
> 	Well... I'd suggest figuring out which GUI toolkit you want to
> use... You have GTK, Tk, I'd say Wx but you didn't list wxpython. You
> also have two competing PostgreSQL adapters -- pick one...

I just installed wxpython packages:
wx2.8-i18n, python-wxgtk2.8, python-wxtools.

> 	Eric, geany, and idle are all editor/development environments and
> not directly related to what the application itself runs.
>
> 	For a predefined database, you may just want to explore Dabo. For a
> general access (eg; one where you tell the program which PostgreSQL
> database to connect to, and it extracts the schema information from the
> database at run-time) you'll need to study the advanced features of the
> database engine and adapter.

I'm exploring now Dabo.

-- 
Regards from Pal




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