On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 01:51 -0400, Typing80wpm@xxxxxxx wrote: > Wolfgang, thanks! I am very persuaded by your arguments regarding > Python. What you have written makes me look at Python in a different > light. > > I happened to find a download of Python2.2 which I installed at work > but have not tried out. I wish I could find detailed instructions on > WHICH python to download from WHERE, and what I would need to download > to access Postgresql from Python, and then some simple examples of > sending a query to postgres and processing the results. 2.2? Latest python is 2.4.1. First place to look at is obviously: http://www.python.org/ see the Download section. To access PostgreSQL from Python, you have some choices, pros and cons have been already discussed on this list. Here's a partial list of options: http://www.druid.net/pygresql/ I've used this, happily, under Linux. It may be already included in the PostgreSQL Windows port, I don't know. http://initd.org/projects/psycopg1 I've used this too, happily, again under Linux. My programs where simple enough that I could switch from one driver to the other w/o touching the rest of the application, since I'm using the DBI 2.0 interface. I have no idea if there's a Win port of this driver. There are other drivers, but I haven't used them. Have a look at: http://www.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=browse (under the Database section). For DBI, or DB-API, see: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0249.html It's a reference manual and not a tutorial, and it's not PostgreSQL specific. While we're at it (and completely unrelated and off-topic) have a look at: http://www.pcpm.ucl.ac.be/~gustin/win32_ports/ > I would be perfectly happy to work with it in that funny DOS window, I > would not require that it be Windows GUI app. Just to be able to read > and write to Postgresql. Do you think there is such a > tutorial/documentation. Python for Windows has a nice console window (IDLE I think). You should be able to find some examples via Google. .TM. -- ____/ ____/ / / / / Marco Colombo ___/ ___ / / Technical Manager / / / ESI s.r.l. _____/ _____/ _/ Colombo@xxxxxx ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
