I'd like to see some database API's to the most common databases included. It would make Python much more useful for web development. I've come across situations where a web host supports python and supports MySQL yet it's taken me days to get the MySQLAPI installed with running setup in my home directory etc. And I don't know what options you have if you don't have shell access?
It definately seems to me that some API's to popular database would be conducive to a "batteries included" approach. -Greg On 6/29/05, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > > > On 6/28/05, John Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > >> I'd definitely like to see ctypes. I can agree with the segfault > >> issue, but I think that some design work would eliminate that. > > > > I'm not sure that it would. Ctypes allows you, as one colleague > > memorably put it, to "poke the operating system with a stick". You are > > always going to be able to use ctypes to provoke spectacular crashes > > of the kind that you can never get with 'ordinary' Python. > > Right. > > > Having said that, I'd like to see ctypes in the standard library > > anyway, with a suitably intimidating warning in the docs about the > > trouble you can get yourself into with it. > > To me, this sounds that *at least* a PEP would be needed to convince > Guido. Or, to record the reasoning why it cannot be included. > > Thomas > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
