On Nov 5, 12:29 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:58:17 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed > the following in comp.lang.python:
> > > Python depends upon Sqlite... which is weird... but it is what I > > discovered... > > Not really (weird). Python, as of 2.5, includes the PySQLite DB-API > adapter as part of the native library/source code. BUT SQLite is NOT > part of Python (the Windows installers typically include the SQLite > engine as a convenience, but Linux installers expect the engine to > already be available). To clarify further. sqlite is supported in python by providing python language bindings over the sqlite *native* apis. SQLite is written in C; pysqlite uses the SQLite C api and intelligently glues it into the python interpreter and makes python language apis available to you. This is why Python (pysqlite2 rather) depends on the native SQLite libraries This is usually how any new functionality would be made available in python - by writing python wrappers over the existing native libraries. The other method would be to re-implement the complete functionality in pure python (an eg of this technique would be paramiko which implements SSH2 in pure python) -srp > > None of the other database adapters are part of the base library. > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > (Bestiaria Support Staff: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > HTTP://www.bestiaria.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
