Newbie Database.

Richard Jones rjones at ekit-inc.com
Mon May 27 22:53:16 EDT 2002


On Tue, 28 May 2002 05:38, Gillou wrote:
> "Corey Woodworth" <schitz0boy at hotmail.com> a écrit dans le message news:
> 24d8090a.0205270854.6cadc50b at posting.google.com...
>
> > How should I save my database file for instance? I was thinking a text
> > file full of strings like this perhaps:
> >
> > songname::artist::performer::filename:: ... ...
>
> You'd better use a real database engine rather than a flat formatted file.
> "Many to 1", "1 to many" or (better) "many to many" relations are very
> difficult to handle in a flat text file. Even in XML, it's quite hard to
> handle.

For the simplest of all relational (multi-column) databases in python, try:

   http://gadfly.sf.net/


</plug>    Richard






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