--- In firebird-python@yahoogroups.com, "peter.jagielski" <pjagielski@...> wrote:

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> Hi Everyone,
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> New guy here - longtime Firebird user/dev, but new to using Firebird with Python. I have a couple of questions.
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> First, it appears from my reading that the fdb driver created by Pavel Cisar is the future of the Firebird Python driver.
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> Second, is there any documentation for fdb, including examples? I can't find any, but again, from my research, it seems that the kinterbasdb docs are enough to get me started? If there are no docs for fdb, I would be happy to document my journey as I make my way through using fdb (with SQLAlchemy - see below).
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> Third, is it possible to use the fdb driver with SQLAlchemy? If so, how? It appears that SQLAlchemy is hard-coded to use kinterbasdb.
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> Thanks to all who reply!!!
>

Philippe Makowski started one branch but with pyfirebirdsql
https://bitbucket.org/pmakowski/sqlalchemy
My guess is that you can do the same and
create a new fdb based driver just with a simple copy of kinterbasdb
based and replace kinterbas with fdb
https://bitbucket.org/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/src/ea4bd6b54789/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/firebird

But i wait for others to comment before i start