Re: Dead project?

william Gunnells <[email protected]> Thu, 8 Apr 2010 04:31:13 +0000
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I'm new to pythoncard and very impressed. I'm currently in the final
stages of getting my book proposal approved. I plan to have a chapter
or two on pythoncard. So I certainly hope python-card continues to
live. Perhaps the book can give pythoncard more attention.

Thank you

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On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Neil Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/4/10 14:00, Ed Leafe wrote:
>> On Apr 7, 2010, at 3:53 AM, Neil Hughes wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Ed. I could lie and say that I was so out-of-touch that I hadn't come across Dabo, but I have to admit that I had forgotten about investigating it several years ago.
>>>
>>> I think the main reason I didn't use it was because it didn't support my niche database back end (Pervasive.SQL) via a native driver or ODBC, but I see on the wiki that there might be ODBC support. If I ever head back into Python I'll have to give it a go.
>>
>>       Is there a Python dbapi module for that? If so, it would be very simple to add support for that database. We abstract the backend-specific stuff, so the only thing that would need to be done is handle the SQL syntax differences.
>
> Not for Pervasive.SQL unfortunately. In C and Java I have access via a
> native interface, but when it comes to Python/Perl or Jython I'm stuck
> with ODBC or JDBC. My PythonCard applications have either used ODBC via
> the old DBAPI ODBC Python driver, or I've used ctypes to interface to my
> C DLL for native access.
>
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