In article <bf551938-0b08-46d5-82be-812c3521a...@googlegroups.com>, shearich...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity, why do you eschew ORMs? > > > Good question ! > > I'm not anti-ORM (in fact in many circs I'm quite pro-ORM) but for some time > I've been working with a client who doesn't want ORMs used (they do have > quite good reasons for this although probably not as good as they think). OK, I'll re-ask the question. What are the reasons? > I take your point about having "rolled my own ORM" - lol - but I can assure > you what's in that 'bardb' is a pretty thin layer over the SQL and nothing > like the, pretty amazing, functionality of, for instance, SQLAlchemy. So, you're opposed to ORMs in general because you find SQLAlchemy too heavyweight. I don't blame you; every time I look at SQLAlchemy, I go screaming in the other direction. But, there are other ORMs. See, for example, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=python+orm. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
