Free chapter about Python and databases (MySQL and SQLite)

[Sebastian Bassi]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:37 AM, John Bokma <john at castleamber.com> wrote:
> I feel more than uncomfortable with example code that uses: user="root"

What's wrong with this? It is just an example of connection string.
The reader will use his/her user/pass/dbname according to their own
settings.

> (e.g. p291). I never get why people write a short (IMO) /bad/ intro to
> databases while there are books out there that do a way better

The intended audience of this book are biologist who may be not
familiarized with relational databases. Most of my colleagues (at
least from the bio camp) don't even know that behind most dynamic web
pages there are databases and I think that most of them will find the
intro section useful. You can always skip what you know and go to the
point you want.

> job. To me such chapters are just a way to get more pages :-(. (=make
> the book more expensive = less money to buy a /good/ book on databases)

I am not sure that price in this kind of book are tied to the number
of pages. There must be some relation, but this is not the main factor
affecting price.

> I would love to see more technical books that start at page 1 with the
> topic, not with an introduction to the language (170+ pages) and some
...

I see where you go, it seems you are not the target audience for this
book. Anyway I appreciate your feedback.

Best,
SB