[Biopython-dev] Jython DB

[Tiago Antão]

Howdy,


On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Retitling thread
>

Again ;)



> while using library Y under C Python makes sense. Database access
> would be a perfect example - things like Python's sqlite3 don't yet exist
> under Jython.
>
>
I noticed that there is 1 reference to sqlite3:
Bio.SeqIO._index

Other stuff on BioSQL is just really related to database configuration and
does not impair functionality (exception to a test case that really depends
on sqlite3).

I suppose that a "default" DB with Jython would probably be JavaDB (aka
Apache Derby)? It is available as a default on the Sun/Oracle JDK (though
not the JRE).

I could go ahead and have a try at evaluating the portability costs for
sqlite3->javadb. In theory it should be easy (
http://www.jython.org/jythonbook/en/1.0/DatabasesAndJython.html)

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