[Zope] Database abstraction layer

Chris McDonough chrism@zope.com
27 May 2002 21:53:14 -0400


That's right.  There really is no canonical database abstraction layer
for Python relational database adapters that I've seen.  I think the
best you can do is either code to the lowest-common-denominator SQL
dialect (probably impossible) or code for as many databases as you need.

Sorry,

- C


On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 05:36, Oliver Marx wrote:
> Greetz
> 
> I'm looking for a DAL to use with Python but can't find any.
> There seems to be adapters for a range of sql servers, but not one which
> unifies the interfaces; sql syntax varies with each server (fx LIMIT and
> TOP).
> 
> \Oliver
> 
> 
> 
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