Is python good for making database work short?

[Gerhard Häring]

Steve wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> Today at work I got an impressive demonstration.
> 
> There was a database mess that had to be cleaned up fast.
> [...]
> A coworker who is a foxpro nut did all of this in about 3 lines of
> code.

This is either an exaggeration or the problem wasn't really that complex.

> [...] Anyway, I would love to have an open source, multiplatform tool that
> could match foxpro in ease of database manipulation.
> 
> Is python it?

Yes. You can write fairly short database code with the Python DB-API, 
compared to all other languages I know (for database stuff, I've used 
VB6, C# and Java, and Python of course).

-- Gerhard