Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.150 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.71; '*S*': 0.01; 'python.': 0.02; 'python': 0.09; 'received:mail-qc0-f174.google.com': 0.09; 'add,': 0.16; 'rivet': 0.16; 'subject:simple': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; '>>>': 0.18; 'sender:addr:gmail.com': 0.18; 'app': 0.19; 'all,': 0.21; 'programming': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'wonder': 0.27; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.27; 'learn,': 0.29; 'yesterday.': 0.29; 'point': 0.31; 'could': 0.32; 'subject:data': 0.33; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.33; 'languages': 0.33; 'received:google.com': 0.34; 'similar': 0.35; 'received:209.85': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'client': 0.36; 'received:209': 0.37; 'far': 0.37; 'received:209.85.216': 0.37; 'data': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'delete': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'build': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'think': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'easy': 0.60; 'kind': 0.61; 'telephone': 0.64; 'store,': 0.65; 'home': 0.66; 'goal': 0.74; 'address,': 0.79; 'business.': 0.82; 'complex,': 0.84; 'different.': 0.84; 'discovers': 0.84; 'tolerate': 0.84; 'marriage': 0.91; 'social,': 0.93 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=emR9q1glG6S1n5cKwgjbJrndsjorvdqVzjIts3li7As=; b=heQ/40OtITxGmxTa0rnnLvd30gYmsLv61VHUgxGLKY8vs0TOgGI0631ilqDEozFw5t TdFcb9NIZA2QjWRH45Fq6res8Qj2RNsCoNqAkf53DwZGMnsvuwS2JAfJH8EKLzkfxQMJ 8HLJ6/oIbjtbTTPhYn4N0xcHbB2SyOXREEeM9r9BEn2YgMT11Yv30bxwF20ztVu0u7mg jmMjxY5qYNGxTtPmnOhUCUdOilSwzfOSUERUmOIs8L63I/C25R+pkbEVY+J8VuCY4JXw pBRXRWkbzSju+Fpn5zcj1YMhYn8g7bocO8tkcfQruK+pwwHsT2Zc/IfDBxzTTZ6j/fDY fiEg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: jsf80238@gmail.com In-Reply-To: References: <9543c9b1-d3ea-4930-af73-6659878e0077@qa3g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 14:05:49 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: svcDJcaiaiKS9ZIml8wugpvyEOo Subject: Re: simple client data base From: Jason Friedman To: python-list@python.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 16 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1347134752 news.xs4all.nl 6975 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:44931 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:28738 >>Mark R Rivet wrote: >>> Hello all, I am learning to program in python. I have a need to make a >>> program that can store, retrieve, add, and delete client data such as >>> name, address, social, telephone number and similar information. This >>> would be a small client database for my wife who has a home accounting >>> business. >> >>Among programming languages Python is exceptionally easy to learn, and >>rocks for the kind of app you describe, but your goal is not >>realistic. Simple is better than complex, but what you can build at >>this point is far from what a professional accountant with her own >>business needs from a client database manager. I am married, and I wonder what his wife will think if she discovers that she could have had her solution yesterday. My wife would not tolerate the roll-your-own approach, but every marriage is different.