Brad Clements wrote: > On 12 Feb 2004 at 13:10, Michael Hobbs wrote: > > > Consider this example code: > > departments = DepartmentTable > > employees = EmployeeTable > > johnsDepartment = (departments * employees) / > > (employees.dept == departments.dept) / > > (employees.name == 'John') % > > departments.name > > print johnsDepartment[0].name > > Has anyone tried expressing sql operations as relational > algebra statements in Python, > like the example above. > > I see lots of talk in google, but no code. > > Is this idea out of fashion already? I can see lots of > performance issues.. but it's still > interesting to me.
Why is it interesting to you? What benefits do you see over: john = employees.findfirst(name='john') print john.Department.name Granted, the example was simple. Feel free to expand for more meaningful discussion. I'm interested in why you're interested. ;) Robert Brewer MIS Amor Ministries [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig
