Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:51:40 -0400
From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
To: sdavis2@mail.nih.gov
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Python interfaces
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On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:52:20 -0400
Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov> wrote:
> I am in the process of moving development from perl to python.  Under perl, 
> there was DBI, the be-all-end-all of database interfaces.  Under python, 
> there is a plethora of options.  Is there a recommended one for postgres?  It 
> will be mainly used in a web environment, so the ability to work 
> asynchronously is not that important.  I am interested in maintaining 
> database introspection (which the DB-API 2.0 is conspicuously short on) 
> tools, as well as niceties such as automatic escape-quoting, etc, that are 
> pretty standard in perl.  Any suggestions?

I maintain PyGreSQL which used to be the one shipped with PostgreSQL
before we split it off into a separate project.  http://PyGreSQL.org/.

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