Open letter to Guido van Rossum

[plakal at nospam-cs.wisc.edu]

Dan Grassi <Dan at Grassi.org> wrote:
> First and foremost is database support as a part of the languare 
> _package_!  In particulay I need Oracle on ix86, a not uncommon database. 
>  But that is no trivial task.  Thus python fails because it can not be 
> used in a production environment that involves Oracle.

	I presume you've already seen the modules listed at:
		http://www.python.org/topics/database/modules.html

	Have you tried using the mxODBC module to connect to
	Oracle via ODBC? There's also a module specifically
	for Oracle: DCOracle. Disclaimer: I haven't used any
	of these myself.

	Manoj