[Tutor] Is this possible for a newbie?
Monte Milanuk
memilanuk at invalid.com
Mon Jul 21 05:48:21 CEST 2014
On 2014-07-21, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 04:57:24PM -0400, keith papa wrote:
>
>> Am a newbie to programming and I started learning python days ago. I
>
> This sounds more like something for a database than for Python itself.
>
> You can write Python code to talk to the database, and Python has
> excellent libraries for a simple database, such as sqlite.
I'd agree up to this point...
> But if you're on a Linux system and can install Postgres, I'd just use that
> directly
But this...? Why in the name of Pete would you suggest a newbie setup
something like postgresql for something this small/simple? Yes, sqlite
has its limitations but I don't think the OP is likely to run into them
any time soon on a project like this.
Monte
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