Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-03 Thread Martin Walsh
On 07/03/2010 10:25 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote: > Jeff Johnson wrote: [snip] >> http://dabodev.com/ >> >> Please check it out. And go to www.leafe.com and subscribe to the >> dabo-user email list. > > I would like to try out Dabo, but I don't see it in the Ubuntu > repositories and I would like to avo

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-03 Thread bob gailer
On 7/2/2010 9:44 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: On 07/02/2010 08:19 PM, bob gailer wrote: On 7/2/2010 5:56 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: [snip] Visual FoxPro ... is very similar to Access I differ. Access and FoxPro are very different. Yes they both use tables, relationships, indexes and SQL. Yes they

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-03 Thread Jim Byrnes
Jeff Johnson wrote: On 07/02/2010 11:40 AM, Chris C. wrote: I'm writing this question because I want, for my own satisfaction, to rewrite one of my Access dbs (one that does our finances) into a stand-alone Python database program using SQLite. I know I'll be learning as I go, but that'll work, I

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-03 Thread John
On Friday 02 July 2010 08:19:24 pm bob gailer wrote: > On 7/2/2010 5:56 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Visual FoxPro ... is very similar to Access > > I differ. Access and FoxPro are very different. Yes they both use > tables, relationships, indexes and SQL. Yes they both have visual >

[Tutor] help learning python

2010-07-03 Thread Schoap D
Hi, I'm busy with this tutorial http://www.openbookproject.net/thinkCSpy/index.html I need some feedback and help to be able to learn Python. For instance, now I'm working on chapter 8, 8.13 exercise 1, 2 and 3. Code become pretty complex for me there: http://www.openbookproject.net/thinkCSpy/ch0

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 07/02/2010 08:19 PM, bob gailer wrote: On 7/2/2010 5:56 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: [snip] Visual FoxPro ... is very similar to Access I differ. Access and FoxPro are very different. Yes they both use tables, relationships, indexes and SQL. Yes they both have visual designers for forms and

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 07/02/2010 06:51 PM, David Hutto wrote: In the end, there might be so many packages, I might not be able to handle it all(for my own uses). But, I would think, you would agree that a simple account balance app, would be no more than tkinter with a few functions to write and retrieve data from

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 07/02/2010 06:32 PM, David Hutto wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:31 PM, David Hutto wrote: Well, it was mainly that he said he was a beginner and was only using this for a single banking project, I do believe. Not that learning a new package would wouldn't be helpful, I like

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 07/02/2010 06:14 PM, David Hutto wrote: Stick to the main python libraries(python with sqllite, and for the standalone exe know it's somewhere, and I've seen it in the past few days, but didn't pay attention because it wasn't important to what I was doing at the time) going anywhere else is t

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 07/02/2010 05:35 PM, Chris C. wrote: Hi Jeff, thank for your reply! I'm aware of Dabo and was pretty much sold on using it until the last couple of days. I was trying to install it so I could start connecting to my tables when I ran into a problem with the instructions for installing Rep