ANN: PyDO-2.0b2 Released

[Jacob Smullyan]

I'm pleased to announce the release of PyDO-2.0b2.

What's New
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* the project() method now takes the keyword argument "mutable", which 
  overrides the mutability of the base class.
* new, more declarativeshortcuts for defining associations between 
  tables: ForeignKey, OneToMany, and ManyToMany.
* several bugfixes, with corresponding tests.
  
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.

PyDO 2 requires Python 2.4 or later.  It 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-2.0b2.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