PyGreSQL difficulties (Sorry and thanks)

Sun Oct 10 23:52:20 EDT 1999

I was somewhat embarrassed about a couple of recent posts I made which served
mostly to inform the Python community of my complete ignorance of SQL.
Anticipating flames, I logged on only to find three thoughtful responses to my
queries -- two via email. Thanks to everyone who took the time to respond; I now
know enough about SQL to finish my program.
What a fine programming language Python is! I used to be an avid Lisp programmer
but it doesn't show much promise for rapid prototyping and CGI programming. While
I have made peace with Perl, its syntax still scares me.
Regards,
Jim Driese
"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" wrote:
> Jim Driese <jdriese at seanet.com> wrote:
> > I'm new to Python and am trying to get the PyGreSQL module to work

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> Just so you know, the whole demo area has not received as much attention
> as it should so don't be too surprised if there are some rough edges
> here and there.
>> > cnx = basics.DB(...)
>> > [deleted]
>> You need to replace the elipsis with whatever args you need to connect to
> a database. See the README for details on the connect() call which takes
> the same arguments as the DB class. The init function in DB just calls
> connect with the args given. For example, if you are opening a database
> on the local machine with the name matching your login name then you can
> just use the following.
>> cnx = basics.DB()
>> More commonly you would name the database here.
>> cnx = basics.DB('mytest')
>> and finally, here is a more complicated example.
>> cnx = basics.DB('mytest', 'db.otherdomain.com', user = 'guest', passwd = 'abc')
>> --
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