Re: why does php have a standard SQL module and Python doesn't !?

2005-12-16 Thread Murtog (sent by Nabble.com)
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Re: why does php have a standard SQL module and Python doesn't !?

2005-12-16 Thread Kent Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, > point taken - maybe what threw me off was the simple fact that there > CAN be NO "ONE standard/default SQL package". > As a newbie in sql I was hoping to find something like e.g. the socket > module (one size fits all) > > So: Maybe this could be explained on the "

Re: why does php have a standard SQL module and Python doesn't !?

2005-12-16 Thread seb . haase
OK, point taken - maybe what threw me off was the simple fact that there CAN be NO "ONE standard/default SQL package". As a newbie in sql I was hoping to find something like e.g. the socket module (one size fits all) So: Maybe this could be explained on the "Database Modules" page. (and again: jus

Re: why does php have a standard SQL module and Python doesn't !?

2005-12-16 Thread Kent Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This was my point though: I found the *description* - but no wordon > WHICH implementation to get WHERE ? Hmm. - Browse to http://www.python.org - click Documentation - click Database API - click Database Modules (Database modules that implement the DB-API specificatio

Re: why does php have a standard SQL module and Python doesn't !?

2005-12-15 Thread seb . haase
This was my point though: I found the *description* - but no wordon WHICH implementation to get WHERE ? Don't get me wrong - I like Python and I will stick to it for some time to come ... but WHY are the places to get those SQL implementations not better marked: Just try to google for "python sql"

Re: why does php have a standard SQL module and Python doesn't !?

2005-12-15 Thread Greg Copeland
To build on Heiko's comment's, and to be clear, Python does have a standard interface description, to which many SQL interfaces are available. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: why does php have a standard SQL module and Python doesn't !?

2005-12-15 Thread Heiko Wundram
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the best (easiest ! quickest !) way to get started doing some > SQL in Python ? SQL isn't SQL, and there is no "standard" SQL module, not even in PHP (which ships with modules for MySQL, PostgreSQL and MSSQL/Sybase IIRC). It all depends on the database backend. S

why does php have a standard SQL module and Python doesn't !?

2005-12-15 Thread seb . haase
Hi, I thought I would quickly write a "SELECT * FROM ... " line in python ... ... but then I was suprised to find that the only "official" web page I found was mainly linking to the PEP on HOW the DB API2.0 should look like. Then there is a choice of maybe ten modules which more or less all claim t