Re: database wrapper ?

2009-02-06 Thread Christian
On Feb 1, 5:56 pm, Stef Mientki stef.mien...@gmail.com wrote: Is SQLalchemy the best / most popular database wrapper ? Are there any alternatives ? As others have confirmed, SQLAlchemy is far and away the most popular Python ORM. Another one to have a look at though is Dejavu (http

Re: database wrapper ?

2009-02-06 Thread Christian
On Feb 6, 10:17 am, Christian christ...@dowski.com wrote: One of its distinctives is that ... Not sure how I forgot this, but Dejavu also lets you write your datastore queries in a LINQ-like syntax. Robert Brewer, the author, is giving a talk [1] about it at this year's PyCon in the US.

Re: database wrapper ?

2009-02-05 Thread Mike Orr
On Feb 1, 3:47 pm, Stephen Hansen apt.shan...@gmail.com wrote: Googling, I found SQLalchemy, which looks quit good. SQLAlchemy is very good. I'm very slowly migrating our entire codebase to it.   But as I only want to choose once, I googled for  SQLalchemy alternatives, but it didn't find

Re: database wrapper ?

2009-02-02 Thread Stef Mientki
is a key issue). Is SQLalchemy the best / most popular database wrapper ? Are there any alternatives ? SQLObject is also probably worth looking at -- http://www.sqlobject.org/ Cheers, Chris I took a brief look at the alternatives, but I guess it's difficult to judge, without trying them all

Re: database wrapper ?

2009-02-02 Thread Martin
Hi, 2009/2/1 Stef Mientki stef.mien...@gmail.com: Googling, I found SQLalchemy, which looks quit good. sqlalchemy was always enough for my needs, I recently found elixir which is yet another wrapper around sqlalchemy. I haven't played too much with it but it seems there are a couple of nice

database wrapper ?

2009-02-01 Thread Stef Mientki
good. But as I only want to choose once, I googled for SQLalchemy alternatives, but it didn't find many answers. (Storm / Grok are of no interest, because manipulating the structure of the database is a key issue). Is SQLalchemy the best / most popular database wrapper ? Are there any alternatives

Re: database wrapper ?

2009-02-01 Thread Chris Rebert
). Is SQLalchemy the best / most popular database wrapper ? Are there any alternatives ? SQLObject is also probably worth looking at -- http://www.sqlobject.org/ Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: database wrapper ?

2009-02-01 Thread Stephen Hansen
Googling, I found SQLalchemy, which looks quit good. SQLAlchemy is very good. I'm very slowly migrating our entire codebase to it. But as I only want to choose once, I googled for "SQLalchemy alternatives", but it didn't find many answers. (Storm / Grok are of no interest, because

Re: database wrapper ?

2009-02-01 Thread andrew cooke
Is SQLalchemy the best / most popular database wrapper ? SQLAlchemy is the best SQL library I have ever used. But it may depend on who you ask. For me, what makes SQLAlchemy so good is the way it allows you to use SQL from within Python. I have used the ORM side, and that's fine, but it's

Re: database wrapper ?

2009-02-01 Thread andrew cooke
I wish all DB solutions were like this - my hope is that EmpireDB will do the same for Java, but it's too early to tell... Hmmm - I should correct the above. I had assumed EmpireDB was new, because it's an Apache Incubator project, but now I look at their site I see it's actually been around

Re: database wrapper ?

2009-02-01 Thread Ben Finney
Stef Mientki stef.mien...@gmail.com writes: Is SQLalchemy the best / most popular database wrapper ? In my opinion, yes it's the best. It gives a good ORM (letting you treat your data as objects and have them persistently stored in the database), while still allowing all the power