[Zope-DB] Re: [Zope-dev] SQLite as a Light DB component for Zope and Python

[Gerhard Häring]

* William Trenker <wtrenker@shaw.ca> [2002-04-02 12:17 -0800]:
> If you look into the C interface you will find it is almost trivial to
> build a Python extension module and "bring" SQLite into the realm of
> Python scripting.

Yes, it's only a matter of an hour or two to get that running as a C
extension. Then comes the testing and bugfixing, which I haven't done
because I somehow lost interest.

> SQLite also has it's own C interface for adding expression 
> functions and aggregates to the SQL syntax.  I expect this could be hooked 
> into Python through the Python extension interface as a callback.

Sure, that's what I've done. If anybody's interested, I can mail her/him
the work I started. I've already sent it to somebody who asked about
such a thing on python-list he indicated he wants to finish it.

Creating a DB-API wrapper around that simple C-extension is really quite
a different thing. Getting this right would require some more effort
IMO. Probably easiest is to just hack an existing DB-API implementation
until it fits.

If anybody's looking for Gadfly replacements, there's also MkSQL on
Gordon McMillan's site, which is a (alpha) DB-API wrapper around
Metakit.

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How ridiculous.

Gerhard