[DB-SIG] Postgres DB API-compliant Python access

Hrvoje Niksic hniksic@iskon.hr
17 Mar 2000 15:05:41 +0100


This list is probably not the right place for this question, but
anyway...

I need to access the PostgreSQL database from Python.  However, it
seems that the default Python wrapper is not DB-compliant.  If at all
possible, I'd really like to avoid learning yet another SQL wrapper
API.  (And besides, I have some DB-based MySQL code that I'd like to
convert.)

I noticed that Postgres supports ODBC.  Is that known to work with
mxODBC?  Does one need a driver manager as well?  Are there efficiency
issues?

Is the default Python wrapper scheduled to be made DB-compliant soon?
In that case, I could wait for that, and/or participate in testing.