[DB-SIG] Running a Python script against an embedded mySQL server.

M.-A. Lemburg mal at lemburg.com
Thu Jul 3 00:04:38 EDT 2003


Gerhard Häring wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>> quadric at primenet.com wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have an application that has an embedded/extended Python 
>>> interpreter.  I need to add
>>> database capabilities [...]
>>
>>
>> If you need an embedded database engine, you should have a look
>> at the more powerful sqlite.sf.net. [...]
> 
> The URLs are really:
> 
> http://pysqlite.sourceforge.net/
> http://www.sqlite.org/

Thanks for correcting these.

>> Embedding MySQL would cause your application to go under GPL control.
>> sqlite comes with a BSD style license. [...]
> 
> Actually, PySQLite has the Python license and SQLite itself is Public 
> Domain.

Even better :-)

>  > It is also faster, offers more
> 
>> features and is very robust.
> 
> Yes to these, but SQLite is typeless, which can be annoying at times. 
> Fortunately, PySQLite is programmed such that you usually won't see the 
> typelessness of SQLite :-)

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