Re: SQL, lite lite lite

2009-01-06 Thread Johannes Bauer
Aaron Brady schrieb: > This is basically an invitation for everyone to brainstorm. (No > hijackings, good humor & digression ok.) Lastly, ... Even if it took (as you mentioned) a semester of SQL studies - which it does not - why do you think your syntax is easier? The only person your proposed

Re: SQL, lite lite lite

2009-01-01 Thread Aaron Brady
On Jan 1, 7:43 am, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Aaron Brady a écrit : > > > > > On Dec 30, 2:52 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers > > wrote: > >> Aaron Brady a écrit : > > >>> On Dec 30, 11:16 am, prueba...@latinmail.com wrote: > >> (snip) > You really do like to reinvent the wheels do you? :-) Nothin

Re: SQL, lite lite lite

2009-01-01 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Aaron Brady a écrit : On Dec 30, 2:52 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: Aaron Brady a écrit : On Dec 30, 11:16 am, prueba...@latinmail.com wrote: (snip) You really do like to reinvent the wheels do you? :-) Nothing wrong with that. Just be aware that most people that really need what you are p

Re: SQL, lite lite lite

2008-12-31 Thread Aaron Brady
On Dec 30, 2:52 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Aaron Brady a écrit : > > > On Dec 30, 11:16 am, prueba...@latinmail.com wrote: > (snip) > >> You really do like to reinvent the wheels do you? :-) Nothing wrong > >> with that. Just be aware that most people that really need what you > >> are propo

Re: SQL, lite lite lite

2008-12-31 Thread Joel Koltner
"Gerhard Häring" wrote in message news:6rvgihf3je6...@mid.uni-berlin.de... > Using an ORM when you don't grasp the relational model and/or the SQL query > language is futile. You'd probably be surprised just how many people there are out there using SQLlite (and other databases) who have no mo

Re: SQL, lite lite lite

2008-12-30 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Aaron Brady a écrit : On Dec 30, 11:16 am, prueba...@latinmail.com wrote: (snip) You really do like to reinvent the wheels do you? :-) Nothing wrong with that. Just be aware that most people that really need what you are proposing are probably already using mature feature rich libraries for tha

Re: SQL, lite lite lite

2008-12-30 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Gerhard Häring a écrit : Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: Aaron Brady a écrit : Hi all, (snip) > I don't think relational data can be read and written very easily in Python. Did you try SQLAlchemy or Django's ORM ? [...] Using an ORM when you don't grasp the relational model and/or the SQL

Re: SQL, lite lite lite

2008-12-30 Thread Gerhard Häring
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: Aaron Brady a écrit : Hi all, (snip) > I don't think relational data can be read and written very easily in Python. Did you try SQLAlchemy or Django's ORM ? [...] Using an ORM when you don't grasp the relational model and/or the SQL query language is futile.

Re: SQL, lite lite lite

2008-12-30 Thread Aaron Brady
On Dec 30, 11:16 am, prueba...@latinmail.com wrote: > On Dec 29, 1:06 pm, Aaron Brady wrote: snip > > My idea is to create a 'Relation' class.  The details are basically > > open, such as whether to back it with 'sqllite3', 'shelve', 'mmap', or > > just mapping and sequence objects; what the simpl

Re: SQL, lite lite lite

2008-12-30 Thread pruebauno
On Dec 29, 1:06 pm, Aaron Brady wrote: > Hi all, > > About a year ago, I posted an idea I was having about thread > synchronization to the newsgroup.  However, I did not explain it well, > and I really erred on the side of brevity.  (After some finagling, Mr. > Bieber and I decided it wasn't exact

Re: SQL, lite lite lite

2008-12-30 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Johannes Bauer a écrit : (snip) Even if it took (as you mentioned) a semester of SQL studies - which it does not - why do you think your syntax is easier? The only person your proposed syntax is easier for is you. Get over it, learn SQL, and enjoy the benefits of one unified standard - not everyo

Re: SQL, lite lite lite

2008-12-29 Thread Roger Binns
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Brady wrote: > Python. There are some options, such as 'sqllite3', but they are not > easy. 'sqllite3' statements are valid SQL expressions, which afford > the entire power of SQL, but contrary to its name, it is not that > 'lite'. Have you c

Re: SQL, lite lite lite

2008-12-29 Thread Pierre Quentel
On 29 déc, 19:06, Aaron Brady wrote: > Hi all, > > About a year ago, I posted an idea I was having about thread > synchronization to the newsgroup.  However, I did not explain it well, > and I really erred on the side of brevity.  (After some finagling, Mr. > Bieber and I decided it wasn't exactly

Re: SQL, lite lite lite

2008-12-29 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Aaron Brady a écrit : Hi all, (snip) > I don't think relational data can be read and written very easily in Python. Did you try SQLAlchemy or Django's ORM ? There are some options, such as 'sqllite3', but they are not easy. 'sqllite3' statements are valid SQL expressions, which afford th

Re: SQL, lite lite lite

2008-12-29 Thread Ned Deily
In article , Philip Semanchuk wrote: > On Dec 29, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Aaron Brady wrote: > > I don't think relational data can be read and written very easily in > > Python. There are some options, such as 'sqllite3', but they are not > > easy. 'sqllite3' statements are valid SQL expressions, whi

Re: SQL, lite lite lite

2008-12-29 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Dec 29, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Aaron Brady wrote: I don't think relational data can be read and written very easily in Python. There are some options, such as 'sqllite3', but they are not easy. 'sqllite3' statements are valid SQL expressions, which afford the entire power of SQL, but contrary t

SQL, lite lite lite

2008-12-29 Thread Aaron Brady
Hi all, About a year ago, I posted an idea I was having about thread synchronization to the newsgroup. However, I did not explain it well, and I really erred on the side of brevity. (After some finagling, Mr. Bieber and I decided it wasn't exactly anything groundbreaking.) But I think the brevi