[Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Mar 30 04:55:42 CEST 2006

skip at pobox.com wrote:

If I want to install Object Craft's Sybase wrapper the logical place for it seems like stdlib.db.sybase. But that's not right because the Sybase module's not part of the stdlib. Okay, it belongs in site.db.sybase. But now we have two different db packages and the programmer has to care about stdlib vs external. (Maybe that's okay.)

This seems to be an instance of the general problem of trying to fit a multidimensional classification into a hierarchical structure.

Database systems solved this long ago by ditching the hierarchy completely and going relational. Maybe a single dotted hierarchy of package names is too restrictive? Should we be able to import things by specifying attributes instead of a pathname?

import db where db.stdlib == True and db.language == "SQL"
and db.interface == "DBAPI2.0"

?-)

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