David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >But isn't Python a decent query language? Isn't it nice to be able to have >all of the facilities of Python at your disposal when manipulating data, >rather than hoping that whatever database you are using doesn't have a >brain-damaged implementation of SQL? > Yup. Our business objects are sitting on top of my homebrew O/R mapping layer, and I find myself entering the Python shell to do ad-hoc stuff with them more and more often. Especially because stuff that repeats one or two times is easily added as a method on the object for later reference... One nice idea that should be possible in Pythonland as well: a Smalltalk O/R mapping layer called GLORP uses Smalltalk as a query language in a very nice way. Queries are given as Smalltalk blocks (say lambdas), and the mapping layer interprets the block's parse tree in order to spit out equivalent SQL code. Say: Employees.get(lambda e: e.name[:3] == 'Foo') to get all employees that have a name starting with "Foo". _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
