<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Sep 10, 2011, at 6:15 PM, <a href="mailto:tutor-request@python.org">tutor-request@python.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">You might look at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sqlalchemy.org/">http://www.sqlalchemy.org/</a>, since it works with most<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>databases. However if you are new on databases, I think you should start<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>learning databases basics, choose a database management system (DBMS)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>that fit your needs and learn as much as you can about that specific<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>DBMS. Then you can use SQLAlchemy or specific packagas (MySQL-Python,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>PyGreSQL,...) to acces to that DBMS. In addition if you are going to use<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>frameworks, most of them already have their own tools for DB manipulation.<br><br></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Just wanted to chime in, because I wish someone had told me this sooner, but if you're using a Mac, try to steer clear of mysql-python. Setting it up on a Mac is absolutely infuriating.</div><div><br></div><div>If your databases are MySQL-based and you're using a Mac, I'd recommend setting up a Linux VM to access them with Python (or not using Python at all). Good luck!</div><div><br></div><div>-Alejandro</div></body></html>