Open letter to Guido van Rossum

[gbp]

Isn't it possible to mix Python with the Java API?  Woulds that allow
you to use the JDBC driver for Oracle.

Disclaimer: haven't tried this.  And I think you have to learn a little
Java but can write most of the code in python.

Dan Grassi wrote:
> 
> Hi Guido,
> 
> Well, I am rather ambivalent about 1.6.  See, I really like python and
> want to use it at work, a dot-com --- in fact I would like it to be the
> standard.  But I doubt that it will come to pass, there are to many
> stumbling blocks.
> 
> First and foremost is database support as a part of the languare
> _package_!  In particulay I need Oracle on ix86, a not uncommon database.
>  But that is no trivial task.  Thus python fails because it can not be
> used in a production environment that involves Oracle.
> 
> Then there is the mod-python/mod_pyapache mess, two competing versions
> both with major problems ranging from re not working in the module
> version of mod_python to memory leaks in both versions.  Memory leaks are
> a major problem in a shop that is serving over 1 million pages a day.
> 
> Also in the area of divergence is the MySQL database interface modules,
> there are at least two and I believe four current versions.
> 
> OK, but this is not python!  Well, technically that is true but these are
> problems when one tries to use python in production!
> 
> I suggest that you, Guido van Rossum, father and inventor of Python,
> "bless" some versions and thus get development behind single versions
> instead of diverging from each other.  Thjis in much the same manner that
> Linus blesses a release of Linux.
> 
> Oh well, this is just wishing upon a star. :-)  At least I do get to use
> python on occasion, thanks.
> 
> Dan Grassi