Python benefits

Hello there!

I'd like to know such thing from people actively using Python in their projects.

Which benefits could give me this prog. language by using of them? Does it able to develop:
- full-functional client-server DB aplications (is it able to connect to famous SQL-servers?);
- desktop GUI DB applications (to work with local DBs like dbf);
- CGI-applications with such convinience like PHP?

Maybe you may point me to another useful Python's features?

TIA

PS: Sorry my poor English.

Yay, a Python post!

Actually my biggest Python project to date uses 2 out of those 3 things. I'm talking about moobot an IRC bot that I'm pretty much now the sole maintainer of. It uses a database (MySQL or PostgreSQL, your choice) rather extensively in a huge portion of its modules, and its performance is definitely more than adequate for an IRC bot I'm not sure what you mean by "GUI DB applications" however ... could you clarify? And as far as CGI stuff, I've created several CGI scripts that give some statistics for moobot all in Python as well. So, it works for what you need.

Now, as to what else makes Python great Put simply - it's insanely easy to read, easy to learn, scales well, performs well for being interpreted, and is incredibly well-documented. I could go into further detail if you like, but I think that's enough

Thank you for your answer!



I meant not console apps for working with desktop databases (not any SQL-servers).

Erm, okay, those would be several different components - yes Python supports several GUI toolkits, yes Python supports several non-SQL database formats (never heard of dbf, but it supports bsddb, gdbm, cdb, and others)

Maybe there are some additional unit to support this?

You know, I found 2 classes for working with it using Google. They are there http://www.vex.net/parnassus/apyllo.py/973100124

FYI - .dbf is the file format for xBase type databases: FoxPro, dBase, Clipper, etc.

Hi apatit_ru.

Python is a powerful programming language for a variety of reasons. It is object oriented, easy to maintain and debug, has a vast array of libraries ( inclkuding cgi, xmi, regex, etc. ). You can use it for client server apps. and Db projects quite easily. You'll need to download the mysql module from sourceforge first however. As far as other databases are concerned, I think it can connect to most of them ( similar to PHP ).

Hope this helps,

-Caitlin.

Thank you all!

Thank you for your info. I got Python is enough powerfull programming language. I installed it on my machine and run a couple of scripts. But I noticed they was running relatively slowly. Is it possible?

Er, yeah it's possible - depends on the script, machine, version of python, etc. Yes, Python is slower than C ... but beyond that, it really depends on what you are doing with the language to determine its relative speed.

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