--- In firebird-python@yahoogroups.com,
"peter.jagielski" <pjagielski@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> New guy here - longtime Firebird user/dev, but new to
using Firebird with Python. I have a couple of questions.
>
> First, it appears from my reading that the fdb driver
created by Pavel Cisar is the future of the Firebird
Python driver.
>
> 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).
>
> Third, is it possible to use the fdb driver with
SQLAlchemy? If so, how? It appears that SQLAlchemy is
hard-coded to use kinterbasdb.
>
> 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