[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 :-)
--
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com
Professional Python Software directly from the Source (#1, Jul 02 2003)
>>> Python/Zope Products & Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/
>>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/
________________________________________________________________________
2003-07-01: Released mxODBC.Zope.DA for FreeBSD 1.0.6 beta 1
More information about the DB-SIG
mailing list