python and very large data sets???

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu Apr 25 11:51:18 EDT 2002


In article <ad381f5b.0204250629.5144d196 at posting.google.com>,
Rad <zaka07 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>I agree that the actual work is not that complex even though there are
>quite a few other bits involved in the project that I thought were not
>relevant to mention in my earlier post, I also agree that it could
>be done in a relational database but if the files were smaller, for
>example Access (which I know quite well), I also know some SQL, but I
>never used MySQL, which is perhaps a possible route to take.  However,
>as I just mentioned I don't know anything about MySQL (except that one
>has to pay for it) + having been learning Python in the last few weeks
>I kind of like it + I was encouraged by your posts and I'm now pretty
>convinced that Python2.2 is the way to go. I won't have to access data
>randomly, just pull out the data fitting certain criteria from original
>4 files and create resulting files.  I might decide (depending on the
>size) to put those into a database though.  I don't understand how I
>can interface Python to a database?

MySQL is free; it's support that costs.  Python has libraries that allow
you to access a database through Python functions and classes.
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