On Friday 27 July 2007 21:26:51 jason kirtland wrote:
> svilen wrote:
> > Anyway it may depend which audience are u targeting with these
> > names - those who never seen an API or those for which names are
> > important only to associate them with a
> > library/version/use-case... both extremes are equaly
> > uninteresting imo.
>
> I came around to thinking about these names by looking at the
> tutorial, presenting and being presented to. The engine and
> metadata have the honor of being the first things that anyone
> evaluating SQLAlchemy is exposed to. Right after that, it's all
> tables, columns, results, and similar familiar territory.
>
> So the audience I had in mind is really everyone new to the
> project, at any level- a nebulous target, and more marketing than
> technical. My thinking (which is not all that sophisticated on
> this) is simply, "Is there a pain point here for first-timers?
> Would a tweak increase adoption?" It's also influenced a bit by my
> own experience, I recall hitting a little speed bump there myself.
i see what u say. for me it would not matter that much anyway if it
was named XXYZiL, as long its easy to remember and type.
so Catalog is okay. more or less, it means (SA) what it is (real
world).
Datasource...
btw around probing dbcook on 0.4, i got some sort of statistical idea
of what is used often, some in a frightening repeatable pattern:
from sqlalchemy import *
db = create_engine('url')
meta = MetaData(db)
and just then all else follows... in 90% of my files.
i can make some module sqlalchemy4lazy.py that contains above...
can the Catalog() construct from url directly? one line less...
also think about nice short variablename for Catalog() (docs etc)
cat = Catalog( url)
people = Table( cat, 'people',...)
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