17. Python Database Access
This chapter describes the programming interfaces that Python uses to interface with relational and hash table style databases. Unlike other chapters that describe specific library modules, the material in this chapter partly applies to third-party extensions. For example, if you want Python to interface with a MySQL or Oracle database, you would first have to download a third-party extension module. That module, in turn, would then follow the basic conventions described here.
Relational Database API Specification
For accessing relational databases, the Python community has developed a standard known as the Python Database API Specification V2.0, or PEP 249 for short (the formal description can be found at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-249/ ...
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