I am the lone developer of db apps at a company of 350+ employees. Everything is done in MS Access 2010 and VBA. I'm frustrated with the limitations of this platform and have been considering switching to Python.I've been experimenting with the language for a year or so, and feel comfortable with the basics. I am concerned that I'll have a hard time replacing the access form and report designers. I've worked a little with TKinter, but it's a far cry from the GUI designer in Access.The list of Python frameworks for rapid development of desktop (i.e. non-Web) database applications currently contains: using PyQt (& Sqlalchemy): Pypapi: www.pypapi.org Camelot: www.python-camelot.com Qtalchemy: www.qtalchemy.org using PyGTK: Sqlkit: sqlkit.argolinux.org (also uses Sqlalchemy) Kiwi: www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi using wxPython: Dabo: www.dabodev.com Defis: sourceforge.net/projects/defis (Russian only) GNUe: www.gnuenterprise.org Pypapi, Camelot, Sqlkit and Dabo seem to be the most active and best documented/supported ones.
I'd like to add to the list
Tryton http://www.tryton.org/
Which framework can be used to create a business application without
even using the already existing modules (one of our customer uses only
the 'party' modules in order to manage insurance products, the GNU
Health (http://www.gnuhealth.org/) project uses more official modules
to create their HIS software).
Reporting is done through relatorio (http://relatorio.openhex.org/),
which uses ODF templates to generate ODF reports (or other format
thanks to unoconv) the client is written in GTk (we're writing one in
JavaScript right now (and I miss python badly)).
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