On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.n...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@au-kbc.org>wrote: > >> On Wednesday 03 Mar 2010 4:36:10 pm Dhananjay Nene wrote: >> > Looking for a simple opensource python database library >> > >> I was under the impression that python does not recommend a db library for >> all >> databases and rests content with giving a general spec which people can >> use >> for implementing particular libraries (like pyscopg for postgresql and >> mysqldb >> for mysql) >> > > Python has a DB API spec which is implemented by different database > vendors. However the spec is not implemented the same way by different > driver authors leading to code having to change when switching to a > different database. Precisely the reason why there is a space for someone to > write a generic db library which can work through the differences across > different drivers (ie. DB API implementations). Most ORMs such as SQLAlchemy > and django already have such capabilities built in - but I am looking for a > relatively thin library over DBAPI. I did find one such implementation in > ADOdb which essentially wraps mysqldb or psygogb etc. Looking for more > options if such exist. > > I am not unclear if at all what python recommending a db library would mean > in this context. > I meant "I am *not clear* if at all ... " > -- >> >> regards >> Kenneth Gonsalves >> Senior Associate >> NRC-FOSS >> http://certificate.nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in >> _______________________________________________ >> BangPypers mailing list >> BangPypers@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers >> > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------- > blog: http://blog.dhananjaynene.com > twitter: http://twitter.com/dnene http://twitter.com/_pythonic > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers