Re: CLI Addressbook
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:14:51PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:24:22 -0500
> "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 01:14:13AM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> > > > I always used postgresql and just did standard SQL queries, until I
> > > > wrote a python front-end.
> > > That is actually a good idea. I love python and this could be a
> > > very interesting small project. So you built a GUI using PyGTK or
> > > something like that?
> >
> > No. plain standard readline. Could use ncurses. I don't do GUI.
> > Note that the python part was just a front-end to the postgresql
> > database. I didn't have to worry about storing and retreiving any
> > data.
>
> Interesting. I am sorry if this question sounds dumb but how did you
> patch everything together? So you have C program that uses the
> readline library and a python front-end for the sql database? If so,
> in your C program you simply call out the python script whenever you
> need to make a connection/read/write to the database?
>
No C program. Python uses readline by default. I.e. print this,
raw_input that. I used python-psycopg for the database access.
Doug.
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