RE: [Pythoncard-users] evaluating shelve module

Hi all, and thanks for a very useful product!

I came to Pythoncard via textRouter, as I'm looking to make a blogger-api
compatible weblog with Zope-CMF, and textRouter has the makings of a great
tool for the client side of the equation.

I'm just taking my first steps into "pure" Python programming (coming from
Zope), so take my opinions with a large pinch of salt! :-)

As you can probably guess, my vote would be for ZODB. I can't give you
in-depth teachnical reasons, apart from "It's been around a long time, it's
got a lot of users... and Guido is on the Zope team!"

But I would point out that questions are often asked on the Zope
mailinglists about what tools to use for making GUI front-ends (for
LAN/desktop applications). wxPython is usually recommended, sometimes Boa.
But having a tool that "natively" talks Zope's language would be a hell of
an advantage, and could bring a lot of new users (and perhaps developers) to
Pythoncard!

Perhaps, even if you don't use ZODB as the storage mechanism, there could be
some kind of "Zope Module" available for Pythoncard?

Hope that makes sense!

Cheers, Jon

Jon Edwards
Pricom Ltd
www.pricom.co.uk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pyt...@li...
> [mailto:pyt...@li...]On Behalf Of Kevin
> Altis
> Sent: 21 January 2002 19:05

> I like the idea of shelve since it is simple and built-in to Python and I
> like the idea of ZODB because it will probably be built-in to
> Python 2.3 and
> provides more capabilities. Of course, use of ZODB probably also lends
> itself to some integration between PythonCard and Zope in the
> future, but we
> may be able to simply do that via XML-RPC.