[PYTHON DB-SIG] The Java API by comparison

Michael McLay mclay@fermi
Fri, 20 Sep 1996 11:50:13 GMT


I just ran across the Java DB interface definition and thought it
might make a good starting point for reactivating this list.  By
comparison the Python DB interface is much smaller.  Is this a feature
of the language, or is the job of defining a Python DB API just not
finished?  

	http://splash.javasoft.com/jdbc/index.html

This brings me to the question of how we can start quantifying the
quality of interfaces in Python.  It would be very helpful to new
users to have a rating system in place that indicates the level of
completeness, performance, ease of use, and other parameters for a
given interface.  Without such a system the Python extension library
will remain a black box in which lots of good stuff is mixed in with
half baked and obsolete technologies.

Michael

=================
DB-SIG  - SIG on Tabular Databases in Python

send messages to: db-sig@python.org
administrivia to: db-sig-request@python.org
=================