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One of the new topics making the rounds is a spate of responses to an old (2-3 years, at least) post comparing Python and Ruby. One piece of interest is this bit: Larry Wall, the designer of Perl, has the slogan “There’s more than one way to do it”. In contrast, Bertrand Meyer, the designer of Eiffel, says “A programming language should provide one good way of performing any operation of interest;...

I continue to be (generally) impressed by SQLAlchemy. After a couple of days worth of work, digging around the guts of Zope transactions and thread management along with SQLAlchemy’s guts of similar nature, I think I have a system in place that will work fine with Zope 3. Zope 3 uses a two phase commit transaction management system, whereas SQLAlchemy generally supports the basic ‘begin / commit /...

Among the short list of good (or at least, personally interesting) Python projects under development today stands SQLAlchemy. It’s a powerful toolkit for working with relational databases in Python, including doing object-relational mapping. It offers a lot more power and flexibility than SQLObject (Python) and ActiveRecord (Ruby), while still staying pretty close to those in relative ease of use...