On Oct 20, 3:31 am, Massimo Di Pierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > Just to clarify. I did not make any statement about "web2py is > superior to SQLAlchemy" since that is somewhat subjective. > SQLALchemy for example does a much better job at accessing legacy > databases. web2py is more limited in that respect and we are working > on removing those limitations. > > I do believe web2py is easier to use than SQLAlchemy, is faster (but > yet I do not know SQLAchemy to optimize it properly) and has many > features in common with sqlaclhemy including connection pools, joins, > left joins, aggregates, nested selects (I do not know SQLAlchemy well > enough to know about advanced features that web2py may be missing). > The web2py DAL works on Google App Engine while none of the other ORMs > do. > > Massimo
So does web2py allow for raw sql if there is an advanced procedure or query that needs to be performed that is outside the scope of the web2pr orm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
