Jon Ribbens wrote: > "The distributors"? Que?
all the downstream people who work their asses off to provide pre- built, pre-tested distributions for various platforms. this includes the PSF volunteers, commercial actors, and a large crowd of linux/bsd volunteers. these days, most end users get their Python either with their OS, or by downloading a prebuilt installer. > I guess I just don't get why the inclusion of the pysqlite wrapper > is so exciting if all it's doing is changing the situation from > "Python does not come with a DB, but you can install extra software > to provide one" to "Python does not come with a DB, but you can > install extra software to provide one". I assume you stopped reading at "just as they've included zlib, dbm, tcl/tk, openssl, and many other standard libraries over the years." sqlite is not exactly Python's first external depency (check the depency lists for a typical linux distribution if you don't believe me) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
