[DB-SIG] Python with Rails?

[Benjamin Scherrey]

   Anyone checked out the 'Ruby with Rails' ( 
http://www.rubyonrails.com ) project? I've not yet played around with it 
but their mechanism of definging a seemingly seemless object-relational 
mapping (the Active Record aspect of the project) from within the 
language is really promising. From what I've seen, their use of 
reflection to implement this doesn't seem outside of good python 
programming practice and, I believe, python should be fully capable of 
supporting a similar construct without modifying the existing language.

   I post this message here to get feedback on what kind of interest 
this idea may have and also how reasonable it would be to implement such 
a system under python. Appreciate any comments or ideas. Ruby does not 
have anything close to the powerful module support of python, but this 
thing is so compelling that I could see a significantly increased 
adaptation of the language, possibly over python. I wonder as to its 
scalability and flexibility if you want to augment the relational 
implementation that it creates though.

   best regards,
      Ben Scherrey
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