I'm pleased to announce the release of PyDO-2.0b2. What's New ---------- * the project() method now takes the keyword argument "mutable", which overrides the mutability of the base class. * new, more declarativeshortcuts for defining associations between tables: ForeignKey, OneToMany, and ManyToMany. * several bugfixes, with corresponding tests. What it is ---------- PyDO is Drew Csillag's ORM (Object-Relational Mapper) database access library for Python that facilitates writing a Python database access layer. PyDO attempts to be simple, flexible, extensible, and unconstraining. PyDO 2 is a rewrite of the 1.x series distributed with SkunkWeb. It has several enhancements: * PyDO can now be used in multi-threaded or twisted-style asynchronous sitations, with or without a customizable connection pool. * PyDO objects are now dict subclasses, but also support attribute access to fields. * Projections -- subsets of the field list of a super-class -- are now supported by the PyDO.project() method. * Table attributes are now declared in a more concise way. * PyDO2 supports runtime table introspection. * Overall, the API has been tightened and the code restructured. PyDO 2 requires Python 2.4 or later. It currently supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, Sqlite, MSSQL, and Oracle, and support for other databases is planned. PyDO is dual GPL/BSD licensed. The source tarball is available at SkunkWeb's berlios site: https://developer.berlios.de/projects/skunkweb/ or, more directly: http://download.berlios.de/skunkweb/PyDO-2.0b2.tar.gz Questions pertaining to PyDO can be addressed to the SkunkWeb mailing list at sourceforge: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skunkweb-list Cheers, js -- Jacob Smullyan