[Soc2006] Pure Python SQL API

[Jorge Vargas]

Hello everyone,

First of all sorry for the delay but this idea jsut came to me yesterday.

It's not 100% but i'm running short on time, if you people like it i'll
write a formal proposal asap.

Right now we have a really nice PEP 249 which tells mostly anything a python
db-interface should have.
Now the problem comes went most drivers are half C half python, and they
need to be compile (my
current nightmare is mysqldb, which under windows requires many gigs of
microsoft toolkits and/or buying their development env)

So what I'm proposing is something like the what is done in java where they
have a library and pure java connectors.
In our case my project will revolve around the pure python core api and it
will be extensible with pure-python modules for each db,
from which I'll probably write at least one as a example/test/proof of
concept.

does this sounds crazy? or is it really a good idea?
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