[OT] Transactions WAS Re: Using Python for business app development

Karsten W. Rohrbach karsten at rohrbach.de
Tue Dec 24 04:10:52 EST 2002


In article <mailman.1040696911.6657.python-list at python.org>, Ben Leslie wrote:
>> Furthermore, transactional aspects aren't high on my proirity list.
> 
> They should be. Well, they probably should be. If I was running a message
> board or something like that, where you have many reads, and it doesn't
> matter if you lose a message or something like that, then maybe I wouldn't
> care about transactions. But if you want data integrity you'd be
> silly not to use them.

how about ZODB then? transaction are intrinsic.  the advantages of
having transaction support in a database backend are obvious, so why not
take a database that is based on a transactional concept and which is
accessed "the python way" (vs. SQL)?

happy christmas,

/k




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