[Python-Dev] SQLite module for Python 2.5 (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Oct 20 19:20:25 CEST 2004

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 13:08, Carlos Ribeiro wrote:

This is a big issue. If the sqlite library supports a bigger and richer API as part of the standard Python library, then everyone else (Python's end users and developers) will naturally expect that all other rdbms will support the same API.

I don't agree. Every one of the FOSS RDBMs has a different C API so I wouldn't expect the Python module wrapping the native APIs to be anything but a more-or-less straight exposure of that -- with some liberties taken to Pythonify the APIs where appropriate, e.g. PyBSDDB has a done a very good job there.

The common API is the DB-API, although it would be nice if there were more commonality amongst the various implementations.

I do agree that further discussion probably belongs on other lists.

-Barry

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