In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> these days, most end users get their Python either with their OS,
> or by downloading a prebuilt installer.
Oh, ok. I've just never heard such people referred to as "the
distributors" before. It sounds like some sort of TV series! ;-)
>> I gu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I guess I just don't get why the inclusion of the pysqlite wrapper
>is so exciting if all it's doing is changing the situation from
>"Python does not come with a DB, but you can install extra software
>to provide one" to "Py
Jon Ribbens wrote:
> "The distributors"? Que?
all the downstream people who work their asses off to provide pre-
built, pre-tested distributions for various platforms. this includes the
PSF volunteers, commercial actors, and a large crowd of linux/bsd
volunteers.
these days, most end users get
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>> Apologies if I'm being obtuse, but how does including the pysqlite
>> wrapper module change anything? You still need to download and install
>> SQLite
>
> I'm pretty sure the distributors will do this for you, just as
> they've included zlib,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Lambacher wrote:
> At least on windows. PySqlite is statically linked with the sqlite library.
> This can be done because it is quite small.
OK, well that makes sense, but why not on any other platform?
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Aahz wrote:
>> Indeed, I think the inclusion of ctypes is far and away the most
>> exciting thing in 2.5.
>
> Really? More than pysqlite?
My personal fave is the "with" statement. It makes a lot of code so much
more elegant - esp. for things which are getting built-in context
managers (e.g. fil
At least on windows. PySqlite is statically linked with the sqlite library.
This can be done because it is quite small.
-Chris
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 06:51:24PM +, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aahz wrote:
> > On that front, I think that pysqlite is much more importan
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aahz wrote:
>>
>> On that front, I think that pysqlite is much more important because
>> it finally gets rid of the excuse for using Berkeley for simple
>> database purposes.
>
>Apologies if I'm
Jon Ribbens wrote:
> Apologies if I'm being obtuse, but how does including the pysqlite
> wrapper module change anything? You still need to download and install
> SQLite
I'm pretty sure the distributors will do this for you, just as they've included
zlib, dbm, tcl/tk, openssl, and many other stan
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aahz wrote:
> On that front, I think that pysqlite is much more important because
> it finally gets rid of the excuse for using Berkeley for simple
> database purposes.
Apologies if I'm being obtuse, but how does including the pysqlite
wrapper module change anything
Aahz wrote:
> Heh. Since we're just finally turning in our 100% first draft of Python
> for Dummies, I tend to think more in terms of what a Python newbie will
> find useful. On that front, I think that pysqlite is much more
> important because it finally gets rid of the excuse for using Berkele
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Aahz wrote:
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>Indeed, I think the inclusion of ctypes is far and away the most exciting
>>>thing in 2.5.
>>
>> Really? More than pysqlite?
>
>T
Aahz wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Indeed, I think the inclusion of ctypes is far and away the most exciting
>>thing in 2.5.
>
> Really? More than pysqlite?
To me much more. After all, why would I need pysqlite if I use
PostgreSQL? ;-)
/me
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote:
>>
>> Consider for example that one of the additions to Python 2.5 (currently
>> in alpha stage) is the inclusion in the Python standard library of
>>
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