ANN: PyDO-2.0a3 released
Jacob Smullyan
smulloni at bracknell.smullyan.org
Thu Jun 9 18:45:48 CEST 2005
I'm pleased to announce the release of PyDO-2.0a3, the fourth and
probably last alpha in this series.
What's New
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* By popular demand, the package name has been changed (for the last
time!) to "pydo".
* PyDO now supports optional introspection of table columns and unique
constraints at runtime, and can optionally cache the data found to
disk.
* drivers for mssql and oracle have been added.
* a new function, ``fetch``, for performing joins -- or more
generally, obtaining potentially multiple PyDO objects and other
data at once in a single query -- has been added, and facilities
with a similar purpose in the previous alphas have been removed.
* a number of bugs have been squashed.
Acknowledgements
----------------
This release contains substantial contributions from Jonathan Ellis,
Tim Golden, and Hamish Lawson. Thanks all!
What it is
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PyDO is Drew Csillag's ORM (Object-Relational Mapper) database access
library for Python that facilitates writing a Python database access
layer. PyDO attempts to be simple, flexible, extensible, and
unconstraining.
PyDO 2 is a rewrite of the 1.x series distributed with SkunkWeb.
It has several enhancements:
* PyDO can now be used in multi-threaded or twisted-style
asynchronous sitations, with or without a customizable connection
pool.
* PyDO objects are now dict subclasses, but also support attribute
access to fields.
* Projections -- subsets of the field list of a super-class -- are
now supported by the PyDO.project() method.
* Table attributes are now declared in a more concise way.
* PyDO2 supports runtime table introspection.
* Overall, the API has been tightened and the code restructured.
It also has several limitations:
* PyDO 2 is still alpha code. Bugs should be expected, and the API
is not guaranteed to be stable.
* PyDO 2 requires Python 2.4 or later.
PyDO 2 currently supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, Sqlite, MSSQL, and
Oracle, and support for other databases is planned.
PyDO is dual GPL/BSD licensed.
The source tarball is available at SkunkWeb's berlios site:
https://developer.berlios.de/projects/skunkweb/
or, more directly:
http://download.berlios.de/skunkweb/PyDO-2.0a3.tar.gz
Questions pertaining to PyDO can be addressed to the SkunkWeb mailing
list at sourceforge:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skunkweb-list
Cheers,
js
--
Jacob Smullyan
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