The Python Papers , Volume 2, Issue 1, 2007
This is the complete issue containing Python User Group highlights, interviews, more on coding idioms, and an academic paper on the Firebird Database. (Revision 2)
This is the complete issue containing Python User Group highlights, interviews, more on coding idioms, and an academic paper on the Firebird Database. (Revision 2)
After a lot of bug fixes and cleanups, I’m pleased to announce that Libgda and Libgnomedb have reached a point where the API and ABI are frozen for the upcoming 3.0 release. This new upcoming version is a complete overhaul compared to the previous 1.2.x versions (the jump to 3.0 is due to a shared libraries versionning). The sources can be downloaded from GNOME servers.
Myles Wakeham wrote about Delphi for PHP and firebird issues:
Well I received my downloadable Delphi for PHP today. I haven’t had a huge amount of time to play with it, but there are some very impressive features, but a couple of ‘critical’ missing features for me.
In the following months I’ll try to port firebird to all architectures
currently supported by Debian.
By default, Firebird stores backup files on local disk, but using GBak you can use something like the following to backup a remote database, locally.
The developers who brought us Delphi, that Ferrari of Integrated Development Environments, are entering the dynamic language tools race, and this time they are sporting Ruby red.
Ivan Prenosil posted in Firebird support list an interesting way to retrieve the aproximated record count in a table, without using the “slow” select count(*). See the code:
SQLAlchemy 0.3.6 released. SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.
This is the first post-Pycon release and includes the new Query object which merges in all of the functionality of SelectResults.
More docs have been added, including some description of the new Query methods. The “generated documentation” has been broken upinto separate pages per module, with navigation added for module-level functions. Docstrings are also much more PEP compliant and are formatted using docutils.
Full changelog can be viewed at: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/CHANGES