[DB-SIG] introduction for Oracle-based newbies; evangelism

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Thu Aug 11 20:44:00 CEST 2005


Catherine Devlin wrote:
> Hi, SIG!  ("Hi, Catherine!")
> 
> I'm basically an Oracle DBA who uses Python on the side, and I'm tired
> of seeing blank stares at Oracle meetings when I mention my Python
> passion.  So I wrote up an article designed to smooth the entry to
> Python for Oracle people, addressing the things I think are likely to
> confuse an Oracle-based newbie.  Or the things that confused me, at
> least.
> 
> The article is at http://www.ioug.org/python.pdf
> 
> If only I could have read it on my way into Python, it would have made
> things quite a bit easier for me, time-travel paradoxes
> notwithstanding.
> 
> Anyway, I had hoped to publish it in the IOUG's quarterly magazine,
> but they opted simply to web-publish it at their site.  I'm afraid,
> for evangelism purposes, it's pretty obscure right now.  Pushing the
> evangelism metaphor a little further, my lamp is not at all on a
> lampstand.
> 
> I'm bringing it up here for two reasons.
> 
> 1) If you personally want to help Oracle people to a friendly
> introduction, please gratify my ego and point them to it.
> 2) Ideas on where to go with it next.  IOUG told me I still have
> rights to try to publish or post it elsewhere, but I don't really know
> where.  Thoughts?

I suppose the database topic guide would be a good place to
place a pointer to the doc.

http://www.python.org/topics/database/

I'm just not sure who maintains that part of the python.org
tree these days (it used to be Andrew Kuchling IIRC).

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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