Object Models - decoupling data access - good examples ?

[Roy Smith]

In article <bf551938-0b08-46d5-82be-812c3521a0cd at googlegroups.com>,
 shearichard at gmail.com wrote:

> > Just out of curiosity, why do you eschew ORMs?
> > 
> Good question !
> 
> I'm not anti-ORM (in fact in many circs I'm quite pro-ORM) but for some time 
> I've been working with a client who doesn't want ORMs used (they do have 
> quite good reasons for this although probably not as good as they think). 

OK, I'll re-ask the question.  What are the reasons?

> I take your point about having "rolled my own ORM" - lol - but I can assure 
> you what's in that 'bardb' is a pretty thin layer over the SQL and nothing 
> like the, pretty amazing, functionality of, for instance, SQLAlchemy.

So, you're opposed to ORMs in general because you find SQLAlchemy too 
heavyweight.  I don't blame you; every time I look at SQLAlchemy, I go 
screaming in the other direction.  But, there are other ORMs. See, for 
example, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=python+orm.