database in python ?
Uwe Grauer
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Tue Apr 12 08:51:26 EDT 2005
Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud wrote:
>
>> MySQL is an excellent option is very well documented. It is also a
>> defacto standard for OpenSource databases.
>
>
> MySQL sucks for anything but very very basic stuff as it supports
> no transactions, foreign keys, procedures, triggers, concurrency, etc.
> Postgresql is a lot better, free, and the psycopg adapter for
> Postgres is *very very* fast (a lot faster than the MySQL one) and it
> has a dictfetchall() method which is worth its weight in donuts !
Yes, Postgresql is a lot better than MySQL but take a look at Firebird
to see how easy a full featured db-System could be.
Use kinterbasdb from Sourceforge to get Firebird into Python.
Uwe
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