Re: [Tutor] Which non SQL Database ?

2010-12-04 Thread Brett Ritter
s a package for older pythons. Berkeley DB is pretty much interchangeable with SQLite in terms of functionality. I much prefer SQLite. If your web application intends to have multiple users interacting with the same data, neither is probably a good fit. -- Brett Ritter / SwiftOne swift...@swift

Re: What Python looks like

2008-08-05 Thread Brett Ritter
On Aug 4, 3:43 pm, Gary Herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A page of Python code looks *clean*,  with not a lot of > punctuation/special symbols and (in particular) no useless lines I am actually going to buck the trend. My first impression of Python was that it was visually hard to parse. When

Re: Module clarification

2008-07-28 Thread Brett Ritter
On Jul 28, 4:54 am, Hussein B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > I'm a Java guy and I'm playing around Python these days... > In Java, we organize our classes into packages and then jarring the > packages into JAR files. > What are modules in Python? > What is the equivalent of modules in Java? I'

Re: Simple Path issues

2008-07-26 Thread Brett Ritter
On Jul 26, 2:57 pm, Gary Josack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sys.path is a list that will tell you where python is looking. You can > append to this in your scripts to have python look in a specific > directory for your own modules. I can, but that is almost certainly not the standard way to devel

Simple Path issues

2008-07-26 Thread Brett Ritter
New to Python, and I have some questions on how to best set up a basic development environment, particular relating to path issues. Note: I am not root on my development box (which is some flavor of BSD) Where should I develop my own modules so as to refer to them in the standard way. I.E. I wan

New to Python, familiar with Perl - Seeking info sources

2008-07-24 Thread Brett Ritter
After many years happily coding Perl, I'm looking to expand my horizons. [no flames please, I'm pretty aware of Perl's strengths and weaknesses and I'm just here to learn more, not to enter religious debates]. I've gone through some of the online tutorials and I'll be browsing the reference before