Chapter 21. Database Programming

Chapter Topics

• Introduction

• Databases and Python RDBMSs, ORMs, and Python

• Database Application Programmer's Interface (DB-API)

• Relational Databases (RDBMSs)

• Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs)

• Related Modules

• Exercises

In this chapter, we discuss how to communicate with databases from Python. Earlier, we discussed simplistic persistent storage, but in many cases, a full-fledged relational database management system (RDBMS) is required for your application.