[BangPypers] Simple python database library

[Dhananjay Nene]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.nene at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org>wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 03 Mar 2010 4:36:10 pm Dhananjay Nene wrote:
>> > Looking for a simple opensource python database library
>> >
>> I was under the impression that python does not recommend a db library for
>> all
>> databases and rests content with giving a general spec which people can
>> use
>> for implementing particular libraries (like pyscopg for postgresql and
>> mysqldb
>> for mysql)
>>
>
> Python has a DB API spec which is implemented by different database
> vendors. However the spec is not implemented the same way by different
> driver authors leading to code having to change when switching to a
> different database. Precisely the reason why there is a space for someone to
> write a generic db library which can work through the differences across
> different drivers (ie. DB API implementations). Most ORMs such as SQLAlchemy
> and django already have such capabilities built in - but I am looking for a
> relatively thin library over DBAPI. I did find one such implementation in
> ADOdb which essentially wraps mysqldb or psygogb etc. Looking for more
> options if such exist.
>
> I am not unclear if at all what python recommending a db library would mean
> in this context.
>

I meant "I am *not clear* if at all ... "


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