Mark R Rivet wrote: > Hello all, I am learning to program in python. I have a need to make a > program that can store, retrieve, add, and delete client data such as > name, address, social, telephone number and similar information. This > would be a small client database for my wife who has a home accounting > business.
Among programming languages Python is exceptionally easy to learn, and rocks for the kind of app you describe, but your goal is not realistic. Simple is better than complex, but what you can build at this point is far from what a professional accountant with her own business needs from a client database manager. > I have been reading about lists, tuples, and dictionary data > structures in python and I am confused as to which would be more > appropriate for a simple database. Those are good classes to read about, and I dare say that most Pythoneers at some time faced confusion as to which were most appropriate for the problem at hand. You'd need of all them and more, a whole freak'in bunch more, to build a professional quality contact manager app. > I know that python has real database capabilities but I'm not there > yet and would like to proceed with as simple a structure as possible. > > Can anyone give me some idea's or tell me which structure would be > best to use? > > Maybe its a combination of structures? I need some help. comp.lang.python tries to be friendly and helpful, and to that end responders have read and answered your question as directly as possible. There's good stuff available for Python. Mark, there is absolutely no chance, no how, no way, that your stated plan is a good idea. Fine CRM apps are available for free; excellent ones for a few dollars. You're reading about lists, tuples, and dictionary data? Great, but other home accounting businesses have their client databases automatically synced with their smart-phones and their time-charging and their invoicing. -Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
