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

Gerhard Haering gh at ghaering.de
Thu Oct 21 11:41:30 CEST 2004

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:26:12AM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Gerhard Haering wrote: >My point is to include a usable DB-API 2.0 implementation that people >can use as a starting point when developing applications that need a >relational database. Other languages do the same btw. Java (win32?) >includes a JDBC driver or ODBC, and PHP5 includes a SQLite module. [...] If you are just after a "usable database driver", then I have to agree with Skip: any of the other available drivers would fit in just as well. Please clarify this.

I'm aiming at a usable DB-API implementation in the stdlib that does not need a server. I want Python to have an RDBMS interface that works OOTB, no administration required. SQLite seems the obvious choice to me, haven't looked at Gadfly in a while, and MySQLdb/MySQL embedded (GPL) has licensing issues (and adds megabytes to the Python binary download, instead of ca. 270 kB uncompressed as for SQLite).

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