Ron Smith
Posts: 1
Nickname: rksmith
Registered: Apr, 2006
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Re: What would be cool: pure-Python database drivers
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Posted: Apr 26, 2006 4:30 AM
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Basically, python is stuck where Java was in its infancy -- using an ODBC bridge or some thin hybrid layer of the drivers for C. Both require a lot of extra setup and ties you to a limited set of environments (for example, try accessing a DB2 database from a Mac using python).
The performance will come with time. Right now, this a one of the major limitations of the python language which keeps forcing me to fall back to Java.
> Not necessarily sensible, or desirable, but quite
> handy: say, a PostgreSQL client written entirely in
> Python. So I could include it in PyCS, or require it as a
> pre-requisite, without making everyone using PyCS download
> and compile Postgres when they probably have it already
> installed.
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> Either that or I should make PyCS install like every
> other Python project, i.e. using setup.py, so
> people with decent package managers (i.e. Debian users)
> can use the OS-provided Postgres and client, and everyone
> else can compile from source, i.e. what they'd have to do
> anyway.
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