Re: Python versus Other Languages using PostgreSQL

On 2017-05-09 11:26, Francisco Olarte 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.

In fact, I don't think many companies/developers even choose a language
or database, but rather just use whatever they have experience in.

>
>> 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.
>

Perhaps not in real world applications, but the vast majority of
tutorials etc certainly
connect PHP to MySQL, Node to Mongo and Python to PostgreSQL.