Re: [Tutor] when is object relational mapping for Python warranted?

2008-06-18 Thread Che M
Thank you both to Tim Golden and Jeff Younker for your helpful responses last week [see archive] about ORMs in Python/SQLite. Very helpful, and I'll get around to giving it a try one of these days... Che From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tutor@python.org Subject: when is object relational mapping

Re: [Tutor] when is object relational mapping for Python warranted?

2008-06-11 Thread Jeff Younker
Yes, it's worth it. It makes it trivial to write simple database applications. The smaller the program, the more useful they are. Both SQLObject and SQLAlchemy have their strengths and weaknesses. SQLObject will get you and going up really fast. Its really simple to create a schema and to

[Tutor] when is object relational mapping for Python warranted?

2008-06-11 Thread Che M
(tried to write a descriptive subject line) I'm curious whether I should consider learning either SQLObject or SQLAlchemy, and whether my needs would be worth it. I am learning to use SQlite databases for fairly simple storage and later search, and have only recently learned about object