Re: Python versus Other Languages using PostgreSQL

On 9 May 2017 at 06:20, Neil Anderson <neil(dot)t(dot)anderson(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On 9 May 2017 at 05:26, Francisco Olarte <folarte(at)peoplecall(dot)com> wrote:
>> Paul:
>>
>> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:45 AM, Paul Hughes <paul(at)vivation(dot)com> wrote:
>>> ....My question still remains though - why is it that all the largest web platforms that have used PostgreSQL *specifically* choose Python as their back-end language?
>>
>> Do you have any data supporting that? AFAIK people tend to choose the
>> language first, database second, not the other way round, and many
>> times the platform language is nailed, but the db can be changed.
>> Also, WHICH platforms are you referring to?
>
> Well put. So far I've worked with Flask, Pylons, Rails and ASP.net.
> All have an ORM layer (SQLAlchemy, ActiveRecord, EntityFramework) with
> support for several database technologies. The framework* is specific
> and fixed but can pull data from anywhere.

*The language is specific and fixed but the data can come from anywhere.

>
>>
>>> Why are Postgres and Python so married, in the same way that Node.js is largely married to MondogDB?
>>
>> I do not think either of these is true.
>>
>> Francisco Olarte.
>>
>>
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