Re: Python plain-text database or library that supports joins?

2007-06-26 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 22 June 2007 09:18, felciano wrote: Hello -- Is there a convention, library or Pythonic idiom for performing lightweight relational operations on flatfiles? I frequently find myself writing code to do simple SQL-like operations between flat files, such as appending columns from

Re: Python plain-text database or library that supports joins?

2007-06-23 Thread Michele Simionato
On Jun 22, 7:18 pm, felciano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello -- Is there a convention, library or Pythonic idiom for performing lightweight relational operations on flatfiles? I frequently find myself writing code to do simple SQL-like operations between flat files, such as appending columns

Python plain-text database or library that supports joins?

2007-06-22 Thread felciano
Hello -- Is there a convention, library or Pythonic idiom for performing lightweight relational operations on flatfiles? I frequently find myself writing code to do simple SQL-like operations between flat files, such as appending columns from one file to another, linked through a common id. For

Re: Python plain-text database or library that supports joins?

2007-06-22 Thread askel
On Jun 22, 1:18 pm, felciano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello -- Is there a convention, library or Pythonic idiom for performing lightweight relational operations on flatfiles? I frequently find myself writing code to do simple SQL-like operations between flat files, such as appending columns

Re: Python plain-text database or library that supports joins?

2007-06-22 Thread felciano
i don't think that using flat text files as a database is common these days. if you need relational database features what stops you from using rdbms? if the only reason for that is some legacy system then i'd still use in-memory sqlite database for all relational operations. import,

Re: Python plain-text database or library that supports joins?

2007-06-22 Thread Alan Isaac
Not Python, but maybe relevant: http://www.scriptaworks.com/cgi-bin/wiki.sh/NoSQL/HomePage Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list