hey, i recently was working on some custom bible software and created an sqlite3 database of a few different bibles, one of which is the American Standard Version (ASV) which you can download here
http://tearsfornations.hostcell.net/bibledoth/asv.bible.sqlite3 here is the create tables CREATE TABLE bible_info ( description VARCHAR(55), abbreviation VARCHAR(7), comments TEXT, font VARCHAR(15), format VARCHAR(10), strongs BOOLEAN ); CREATE TABLE [bible_verses] ( [b] int(4) NULL, [c] int(4) NULL, [v] int(4) NULL, [t] text NULL, PRIMARY KEY ([b],[c],[v]) ); John Fouhy wrote: > > 2009/5/26 Eduardo Vieira <eduardo.su...@gmail.com>: >> Now, a little farther on the topic of a Bible database. I'm not sure >> how I should proceed. I don't really have the db file I need, I will >> have to generate it somehow, from a bible software, because the >> version I want is for Portuguese. I have found a bible in sql, a bible >> in MS Access to give me some ideas on how to structure my database. >> But my question is do I really need a sql database for my need, since >> I will be only reading from it? Never adding or updating. One like >> sqlite. Would a pickled dictionary from Bible_reference to verse be >> faster? Should I work with anydbm? > > If you don't want to use a database, you should probably use the shelve > module. > > However, there is really no particular reason not to use a relational > database. It seems a solution fairly well suited to your problem. > Python has a database supplied these days: sqlite3. I suggest using > that, rather than MS Access. > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Parsing-Bible-verses-tp23660711p24725020.html Sent from the Python - tutor mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
