Re: Is there no single/uniform RDBMS access API module for Python?

**Laszlo Nagy** · Jun 27 '08, 04:24 PM

Banibrata Dutta írta:

Hi,
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Again a noob question.
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Based on this URL http://wiki.python.org/moin/DatabaseInterfaces , is
it correct to conclude that there is no RDBMS agnostic, single/uniform
DB access API for Python ?
Something in the lines of JDBC for Java, DBD for Perl etc. ?
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How is the RDBMS change handled for solutions which need to work with
different RDBMSs ??

PEP 249 – Python Database API Specification v2.0 | peps.python.org

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/

This API has been defined to encourage similarity between the Python modules that are used to access databases. By doing this, we hope to achieve a consistency leading to more easily understood modules, code that is generally more portable across datab...