data base

[Gerhard Häring]

DavidW Blaschke wrote:
> I prefer metakit over SQLLite.  As I understand it,
> SQLLite is an interface to gdbm. 

Your understanding is outdated. SQLite 1.x was using gdbm. But since 
SQLite 2 (Oct. 2001), this is no longer true.

> Metakit is a step up
> but is still easy to use. 

If you don't need a relational database, there are a lot more options. 
For embedded SQL databases, there are three options AFAIK (PySQLite, 
Gadfy and some wrapper upon Metakit).

> But it is personal
> preference, of course.  Search for database on
> freshmeat and you'll probably find several options.
> [broken quoting snipped]

Here are the resources I recommend prior to going to Freshmeat:

http://python.org/topics/database/

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Python/Modules/Databases_and_Persistence/

I try personally to keep the dmoz one up-to-date.

-- Gerhard