If you are going to go with Python, don't include Access in the mix at all. If you want a small light-weight, serverless database back-end, you would be better to go with SQLite. Its cross platform and well proven. I think Firebird will give you that too, though I have never used it.
Most people who use Oracle don't need it. Unless you REALLY need it (Think terabytes of data), Oracle is like cracking a nut with a sledge hammer. You can do it. But you have to slug around a lot more weight in order to do what you can accomplish with a nut cracker. In other words its overly complicated. -Chris On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:06:22AM -0400, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Jul 15, 2005, at 11:19 PM, William Lodge wrote: > > > Finally, does anybody know of any Web sites having examples of > > database apps > > in Python? > > You might want to look at Dabo, which is a database application > framework for Python. In about 30 seconds you can create an application > that queries a database, displays the results, and allows for > editing/updating/inserting/deleting records. > > Currently we do not have an ODBC interface, which is what you'd need > if the data is in Access, since no one involved has written that > module. However, if you are interested in developing your app in Dabo, > we'd be glad to add that module as long as you're willing to give us > the feedback we need to get it working smoothly. > > BTW, I wouldn't suggest scaling up to Oracle - why get involved with > all that licensing? There are many open-source databases, such as > PostgreSQL, MySQL and Firebird that can handle large data sets without > getting stuck with huge license fees. > > ___/ > / > __/ > / > ____/ > Ed Leafe > http://leafe.com/ > http://dabodev.com/ > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
