Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Scripting on Windows - persisting data structures

Author:Fredrik Lundh
Posted:1/13/1999; 3:23:05 AM
Topic:Scripting on Windows
Msg #:2073 (In response to 2071)
Prev/Next:2072 / 2074

Sure, but if you want a tightly integrated object database for Python (the language), get Zope (an application platform) (*).

I haven't used Frontier or Zope's object database enough judge if one is radically better than the other, but Zope looks pretty competent to me. And it's definitely tightly integrated with Python.

Maybe you can come up with a more detailed comparision than "they think they have it but they haven't"?

/F

*) background: Python is extremely modular, making it easy to mix and match components from different sources. Saying that "Python doesn't have this or that" is usually misleading -- chances are that there are components available that does exactly that, and that these components will work just fine with any already existing Python application. Need to access an Oracle database from your application? Fine, get the Oracle module. It's compatible with the Informix module, would you decide to switch. Or if you're doing a low-volume site, use Gadfly instead. Need to generate graphics and images on the fly? Fine, get the Python Imaging Library. Want to serve FTP and NNTP from the same database? Fine, plug in Medusa. And so on.

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