On Jun 14, 10:43 am, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > bukzor wrote: > > It seems that whenever I have an application that uses a database > > (MySQL) I end up writing a database framework from scratch. Is there > > some accepted pre-existing project that has done this? > > > I see Django, but that seems to have a lot of web-framework that I > > don't (necessarily) need. I just want to have my objects go in and out > > of the database in a consistent manner without writing a ton of code. > > Can you just use the database part without making a full-blow web app? > > > I see Zope, but that doesn't use MySQL (as far as I can tell), which > > I've invested a lot of time learning to use and optimize. Also, my > > manager wants to be able to log into a MySQL prompt and be able to > > look at the data. > > > --Buck > > Zope definitely has MySQL interface, but if you think Django is a lot then > Zope > is even more. If I'm understanding your correctly what you want is ORM/ > These > links should help: > > http://pythonnotes.blogspot.com/2004/09/python-orm-tools.htmlhttp://www.sqlalchemy.org/http://www.sqlobject.org/ > > -Larry
Both of those would work. I have a lot of data-integrity checks to make that would be impossible at the MySQL level and hard at the python/MySQLdb level. This will help a lot. I'll probably use the SQLAlchemy. Thanks so much! --Buck -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list