python & postgresql ?

Harry George harry.g.george at boeing.com
Mon Aug 18 13:21:24 EDT 2003


Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:

>     Tom> I'm trying to develop a cross-platform python-gui for a postgresql
>     Tom> db.  Of course, I need some postgresql-module for python...
>     Tom> Pygresql seems the obvious choice, but I'm developing on windows
>     Tom> xp.  To get pygresql to work I need to compile pygresql with a
>     Tom> visual c++ compiler (wich I don't have).
> 
> I think you're going to have to find a way to compile C code on your machine
> (mingw, cygwin, etc) or find a binary distribution of one of the PostgreSQL
> modules.  I use psycopg.  You should be able to find a binary installer for
> one of the possibilities.
> 
> You could also start development on Linux and when it's good enough, maybe a
> Windows person will step in to help out.
> 
> Skip
> 

pypgsql has binaries for win32 on sourceforge.  I haven't used it (I
use pypgsql on Linux).

http://pypgsql.sourceforge.net/
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