[sage-devel] Re: Various questions on data bases for Sage

2009-05-28 Thread Michael Brickenstein
Hi! Actually, regarding online databases. There exists RUM. http://python-rum.org/ Guess, who is co-lead developer of that package... Using an SA model, you can set up an online frontend to your database. For your application, the following feature's can help: - it is possible to feed it with si

[sage-devel] Re: Various questions on data bases for Sage

2009-05-28 Thread simon . king
Hi William! On May 27, 7:21 pm, William Stein wrote: > > I have written simple sage code to interface to his webpages, but > > that's the easy part :) I think you will find a web interface is much > > more useful than a *giant* download for the true acolytes. > > I think this depends somewhat o

[sage-devel] Re: Various questions on data bases for Sage

2009-05-27 Thread William Stein
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Nick Alexander wrote: > >> I am familiar with neither SQLDatabase nor sqlalchemy (just know they >> exist). So, what are advantages or disadvantages? > > Neither am I, but can I suggest a database, modeled perhaps on David > Kohel's marvelous genus 2 invariants da

[sage-devel] Re: Various questions on data bases for Sage

2009-05-27 Thread Michael Brickenstein
I use SA on a daily basis and its feature set is awesome. I recommend to you using the declarative layer http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/05/ormtutorial.html#creating-table-class-and-mapper-all-at-once-declaratively This makes it easier to you, to jump into SA. Moreover, the declarative extension

[sage-devel] Re: Various questions on data bases for Sage

2009-05-27 Thread William Stein
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Simon King wrote: > > Hi! > > The mission statement or our project on cohomology rings says that we > should make a data base publically available. It should in some way be > available for Sage (say, as an optional/experimental package), but I > wonder if it is po

[sage-devel] Re: Various questions on data bases for Sage

2009-05-27 Thread Nick Alexander
> I am familiar with neither SQLDatabase nor sqlalchemy (just know they > exist). So, what are advantages or disadvantages? Neither am I, but can I suggest a database, modeled perhaps on David Kohel's marvelous genus 2 invariants database at http://echidna.maths.usyd.edu.au/kohel/dbs/ and s

[sage-devel] Re: Various questions on data bases for Sage

2009-05-27 Thread simon . king
Hi Martin, On May 27, 2:28 pm, Martin Albrecht wrote: > Note that sqlalchemy is also in Sage, I'm not sure how it relates to this > class which was implemented by Emiliy Kirkman and Robert Miller before (?) > sqlalchemy was in Sage. I am familiar with neither SQLDatabase nor sqlalchemy (just kn

[sage-devel] Re: Various questions on data bases for Sage

2009-05-27 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Wednesday 27 May 2009, simon.k...@uni-jena.de wrote: > Hi David, > > On May 27, 1:45 pm, David Joyner wrote: > > I'm not sure this will help but it is related to your > > question:http://wiki.sagemath.org/days4/projects/database > > Thank you! I wasn't aware that SQLDatabase exists in Sage. I

[sage-devel] Re: Various questions on data bases for Sage

2009-05-27 Thread simon . king
Hi David, On May 27, 1:45 pm, David Joyner wrote: > I'm not sure this will help but it is related to your > question:http://wiki.sagemath.org/days4/projects/database Thank you! I wasn't aware that SQLDatabase exists in Sage. I thought I had to import sqlalchemy or something else. I will try a

[sage-devel] Re: Various questions on data bases for Sage

2009-05-27 Thread David Joyner
I'm not sure this will help but it is related to your question: http://wiki.sagemath.org/days4/projects/database On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Simon King wrote: > > Hi! > > The mission statement or our project on cohomology rings says that we > should make a data base publically available. It