On Friday 05 February 2010 21:34:53 Marko Kreen wrote: > On 2/5/10, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: > > > I think another difference is that the Perl DBI interface is very > > > rich, whereas the Python DB-API is quite minimal and almost forces > > > people to write (incompatible) extensions. The DB-SIG at Python that > > > ought to drive all this is also quite dead, possibly because everyone > > > has moved on to SQLAlchemy. > > > > For people who use Python a lot, could I have a list of the deficiencies > > > > in DBAPI? I've got my horse and lance ready. > Psycopg was the leader, especially in web-environments, > but it has non-obvious license and with dead website it does not > seem that attractive. Although it is well-maintained still. Imho a big problem is that it does way too much itself - i.e. it does not use things like PQExecParams but does escaping/parsing itself... Other people may think thats a good idea - I definitely do not think so.
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