RE: Perl

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 09:04, Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote:
> Okay ... a question from a colleague ...
>
> How do you get python to work with Oracle ... for perl there DBD: and
> DBI: anything similar in Python? My knowledge of Perl is as good as
> my knowledge of Python ... /dev/null
>

Python defines a database API specification (currently DB-API 2.0) and module writers provide various database adapters which implement this API. You can find out more about this at:

http://www.python.org/topics/database/

There are currently two Oracle database adapters in common use:

DCOracle2 from the Zope Community: http://www.zope.org/Members/matt/dco2

cx_Oracle from Computronix: http://www.computronix.com/utilities.shtml

Since the DB-API defines the methods that a database adapter implements, they both provide the same functionality at the basic connect/query/retrieve results level. There aren't any differences between these two adapters that I've noticed in my work.

> --
> Glenn Stauffer
> Swarthmore College
> Swarthmore, PA

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