Namespaces/introspection: collecting sql strings for validation
Alex Martelli
aleax at mac.com
Tue Apr 24 01:22:15 EDT 2007
Martin Drautzburg <Martin.Drautzburg at web.de> wrote:
> George Sakkis wrote:
>
> > Yes, there is: use an ORM to do the SQL generation for you. Check out
> > SQLAlchemy, it will buy you much more than what you asked for.
>
> Might look, though in general I don't like OR mappers much. Having SQL
> generated feels as strange as having python code generated. Too much
> magic, too many layers. I think it is better to simply learn SQL.
Amen, brother; this opinion is definitely an outdated and minority one,
today, but I do tend to share it (and yet I'm programming in Django a
lot these days... ah well, consistency, hobgoblin, little minds, &c:-).
Alex
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