MySQL Support from Python on OS X
It was more work than it should have been, but you can get access to a MySQL database from Python on OS X 10.5 by following the instructions at this blog post.
If you’re using Pydev in Eclipse, be sure /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages is in the System PYTHONPATH. Bring up the Preferences dialog, open Pydev in the tree, click on Interpreter - Python, click New Folder to the right of System PYTHONPATH, and then add the directory, if necessary.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:25 am
This is not particularly relevant, but I find it interesting.
Per the SQLite folks, Mac OS X uses SQLite for Apple Mail and Safari. See:
http://www.sqlite.org/famous.html
And the new Filemaker, Inc. product (Bento) apparently relies on SQLite.
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
SQLite is a very nice embedded database. It’s also used by Google Gears. It seems to be becoming the cross platform embedded database of choice. I’ve used two others that are written in Java that are also very good - HSQLDB (formerly Hypersonic SQL) and Apache Derby (formerly Cloudscape). Derby is packaged with Sun’s Java JDK 6.