On 21/06/2012 11:50, andrea crotti wrote:
We have a very chaotic database (on MySql) at the moment, with for I'm trying to use SQLalchemy and it looks absolutely great, but in general as a policy we don't use external dependencies..
That's a very foolish general policy, a lot of the power of python is in the huge array of excellent third party libraries and frameworks, but each to their own...
To try to do an exception in this case: - are there any problems with SQLalchemy on Windows?
No.
- are there any possibly drawbacks of using SQLalchemy instead of the MySqlDB interface?
You won't be using it instead of mysqldb, you'll be using it as a layer over mysqldb.
For the second point I guess that we might have a bit less fine tuning,
Not so, any tuning you can do direct against the dbapi driver can still be done through SQLAalchemy.
Any other possible issue?
If you have problems, I'd suggest asking on the sqlalchemy mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
