Hi Paul! > On 25 March 2017 at 11:24, Pavel Velikhov <pavel.velik...@gmail.com> wrote: >> No, the current solution is temporary because we just don’t have the >> manpower to >> implement the full thing: a real system that will rewrite parts of PythonQL >> queries and >> ship them to underlying databases. We need a real query optimizer and smart >> wrappers >> for this purpose. But we’ll build one of these for demo purposes soon >> (either a Spark >> wrapper or a PostgreSQL wrapper). > > One thought, if you're lacking in manpower now, then proposing > inclusion into core Python means that the core dev team will be taking > on an additional chunk of code that is already under-resourced. That > rings alarm bells for me - how would you imagine the work needed to > merge PythonQL into the core Python grammar would be resourced?
An inclusion in core would definitely help us to grow the team, but I see your point. If we could get an idea that we’d be in the core if we do a) b) c) and have a big enough team to be responsive, that could also help us grow. > > I should say that in practice, I think that the solution is relatively > niche, and overlaps quite significantly with existing Python features, > so I don't really see a compelling case for inclusion. The parallel > with C# and LINQ is interesting here - LINQ is a pretty cool > technology, but I don't see it in widespread use in general-purpose C# > projects (disclaimer: I don't get to see much C# code, so my > experience is limited). I’m not sure about the usual crowd of Python developers, but data scientists like the idea a lot, especially the future plans. If we’ll really have millions of data scientists soon, this could become pretty big. We’re also seeing a lot of much more advanced use-cases popping up, where PythonQL could really shine. Yes, LINQ didn’t go big, but maybe it was a bit ahead of its time. > > Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
