[Zope] Passing data to/from Python

Curtis Maloney curtis@umd.com.au
Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:40:10 +1000


On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Terry Kerr wrote:
> Curtis Maloney wrote:
> > > 1. It seems that the only way to establish a DB connection is
> > > through Gadfly. There are warnings everywhere that Gadfly is
> > > inefficient. Therefore, I want to use ODBC (ODBC.Windows), like I
> > > did before. How?
> > >
> > Nonono.... ZOPE uses the Gadfly db to store "zope objects".  It can also
> > connect to other DBs, and access them via SQL methods.  There are a number of
> > DB interfaces, including an ODBC interface.
> 
> Umm...no...ZOPE used the ZODB to store objects...gadfly is another SQL written
> python that is just bundled with zope since it is pretty cool.
> 
Ok.. my mistake.. sorry.... thanks for correcting me.  I was under the
impression ZOPE stored data in a db, using gadfly as the default, and it was
refered to as ZODB for convenience.

Thanks for clearning that up for me.

-- 
Have a better one,
	Curtis.

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