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List:       python-db-sig
Subject:    [DB-SIG] Python advocacy
From:       mal () lemburg ! com (M ! -A !  Lemburg)
Date:       2000-05-10 20:44:10
Message-ID: 3919CA1A.7F286EE4 () lemburg ! com
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jmcgraw wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm working with a multiplatform (Linux/Unix/Win32/...) database server
> called Ovrimos.  It has some nice features, but _no_ way to access the
> server from within Python on Unix (no Python interface, no Unix ODBC
> driver).  I'm trying to develop an application based on FreeBSD.

You could use mxODBC to access the database provided they port
the ODBC driver to Unix.
 
> The following is an a snip from Dimitrios Souflis at Altera, the company
> that makes Ovrimos:
>
> >Although I have absolutely no knowledge of Python, I've been posing
> >the issue every now and then for the past 2 years. Unfortunately,
> >it doesn't seem to convince the management. Currently, they're
> >infatuated with PHP. Do you have any concrete numbers of the
> >following of Python, that I could use? (Or even convince many of
> >your friends to email requesting a Python interface? ;-> )
> >
> >We'd probably have already written the ODBC driver for Unix, had we
> >had an SDK for it. As it stands, I suspect that we have to write
> >sql.h and sqlext.h by hand. And I don't even know how such a driver
> >is _called_. Is it dlopen'ed directly, is there a Driver Manager?
> >Our ODBC Reference covers only Windows (to be frank, I didn't even
> >know there were ODBC drivers for Unix till a year ago).

It should be possible to port a Windows ODBC (provided it exists)
to Unix. For reference on how this can be done, see the public
domain ODBC driver available for MySQL (www.mysql.org).

> >If you already use ODBC for Unix, you could point us to relevant
> >resources. Since we put a lot of weight on ODBC, and the Windows
> >driver is already written, a Unix port seems less distant that
> >writing the Python interface from scrach. If you provide me with
> >some starting point, I promise to raise the issue again.
> >
> >Best regards,
> >--
> >Dimitrios Souflis                dsouflis@ovrimos.com
> >Ovrimos S.A., Greece             http://www.altera.gr/dsouflis
> >>>TinyScheme download site:      http://www.altera.gr/dsouflis/tinyscm.html
> 
> I would appreciate anyone that's interested sending him an email
> (dsouflis@ovrimos.com) indicating interest.  Apparently Python is not even
> on their radar screen.
> 
> I apologize for the lengthiness of this message.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Joel Mc Graw
> DataBill, LLC

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