Catherine Devlin wrote:
> Hi, SIG! ("Hi, Catherine!")
>
> I'm basically an Oracle DBA who uses Python on the side, and I'm tired
> of seeing blank stares at Oracle meetings when I mention my Python
> passion. So I wrote up an article designed to smooth the entry to
> Python for Oracle people, addressing the things I think are likely to
> confuse an Oracle-based newbie. Or the things that confused me, at
> least.
>
> The article is at http://www.ioug.org/python.pdf
>
> If only I could have read it on my way into Python, it would have made
> things quite a bit easier for me, time-travel paradoxes
> notwithstanding.
>
> Anyway, I had hoped to publish it in the IOUG's quarterly magazine,
> but they opted simply to web-publish it at their site. I'm afraid,
> for evangelism purposes, it's pretty obscure right now. Pushing the
> evangelism metaphor a little further, my lamp is not at all on a
> lampstand.
>
> I'm bringing it up here for two reasons.
>
> 1) If you personally want to help Oracle people to a friendly
> introduction, please gratify my ego and point them to it.
> 2) Ideas on where to go with it next. IOUG told me I still have
> rights to try to publish or post it elsewhere, but I don't really know
> where. Thoughts?
I suppose the database topic guide would be a good place to
place a pointer to the doc.
http://www.python.org/topics/database/
I'm just not sure who maintains that part of the python.org
tree these days (it used to be Andrew Kuchling IIRC).
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