Thank you all! My main problem is going away from Python and programming for weeks or months at a time, then picking up where I left off. But Python is much better in this regard than Perl.
I appreciate the help. rd ----------------- Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > If using a db-api compliant adapter, and using minimal common > features, the main thing one would have to worry about is the different > placeholders used by the adapter. > > I'd be more likely to do something like > > import <pick-a-db-adapter> as db > > and then have a class query the db connection for what type of > placeholder it uses, then modify any queries the class uses. > > You might make a "class" for each database /table/, and each > instance of that class would be one record in the table. The class would > have the methods for retrieval/update/delete/insert, when given the key > value, perhaps. > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > (Bestiaria Support Staff: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > HTTP://www.bestiaria.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list