Re: Camelot a good tool for me

From	Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Subject	Re: Camelot a good tool for me
Date	2015-05-22 23:02 +1000
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Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> writes:

> On Fri, 22 May 2015 09:59:02 +0200, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>
> > Would Camelot be a good tool to get me started, or can I better bite
> > the bullet and just start with Tkinter and SQLAlchemy?
>
> Bite the bullet and learn SQL.

Good advice in the long term. However, one can't learn *everything* at
once.

Cecil, use SQLAlchemy and you will have a firm foundation that will not
hold you back from learning SQL at some future point; on the other hand,
you will be using a library that makes it *much* more sensible to work
with database structures and queries from yuor Python code.

The same is not necessarily true of a lot of database APIs; they will
frequently simplify to the point of obscuring your understanding of the
database, and learning SQL later is hindered to that extent. SQLAlchemy,
though, does not have that problem.

> SQLAlchemy -> Database :: Python -> Assembly Language.

I think you're making my point for me :-)

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Ben Finney

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Camelot a good tool for me Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-22 09:59 +0200
  Re: Camelot a good tool for me Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2015-05-22 12:38 +0000
    Re: Camelot a good tool for me Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-05-22 23:02 +1000
    Re: Camelot a good tool for me Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-22 15:11 +0200
      Re: Camelot a good tool for me Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2015-05-22 14:29 +0100
      Re: Camelot a good tool for me Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-05-22 15:57 +0200
      Re: Camelot a good tool for me Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it> - 2015-05-22 19:24 +0200
      Re: Camelot a good tool for me Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-23 03:37 +1000
      Re: Camelot a good tool for me Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-05-22 19:56 +0200
      Re: Camelot a good tool for me Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it> - 2015-05-22 21:12 +0200
      Re: Camelot a good tool for me Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-23 18:59 +1000
      Re: Camelot a good tool for me Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it> - 2015-05-24 15:15 +0200
  Re: Camelot a good tool for me Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-05-22 15:03 +0200
    Re: Camelot a good tool for me OT beauty of Tk Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-05-22 21:52 +0200
      Re: Camelot a good tool for me OT beauty of Tk Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-05-22 22:13 +0200
  Re: Camelot a good tool for me Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-22 15:24 +0100
  Re: Camelot a good tool for me felix <felix@epepm.cupet.cu> - 2015-05-22 10:50 -0400
  Re: Camelot a good tool for me Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-05-24 07:05 -0500

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