On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, D'Arcy J.M. Cain 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/.
I maintain a further split from PyGreSQL that supports native bind
parameters and prepared statements at: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/python-pgsql
(using bind parameters eliminates many worries about escape quoting...)
Cristian
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Cristian Gafton
rPath, Inc.
