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1 Introduction
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2 ============
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4 * Original project homepage: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/PSSGroup/SqlPython
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5 * PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqlpython
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6 * News: http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/search/label/sqlpython
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7 * Current docs: http://packages.python.org/sqlpython/
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9 SQLPython is a command-line interface to Oracle databases. It is intended as an alternative to Oracle's
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10 SQL\*Plus. For the most part, it can be used the same way SQL\*Plus would be used; this documentation
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11 focuses on the places where SQLPython differs.
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13 SQLPython was created by `Luca Canali <http://canali.web.cern.ch/canali/>`_ at CERN. Most new development
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14 has been done by `Catherine Devlin <http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/>`_. The development trunk (very unstable) is at `assembla <https://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/sqlpython>`_; you can install the trunk on your machine with::
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16 hg clone http://hg.assembla.com/python-cmd2 cmd2
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17 cd cmd2
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18 python setup.py develop
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20 hg clone http://hg.assembla.com/sqlpython sqlpython
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21 cd sqlpython
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22 python setup.py develop
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24 Using `hg pull`, `hg update` subsequently will update from the current trunk.
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26 SQLPython is based on the Python standard library's
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27 `cmd <http://docs.python.org/library/cmd.html#module-cmd>`_ module, and on an extension
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28 to it called `cmd2 <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cmd2>`_. SQLPython also draws considerable
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29 inspiration from two Perl-based open-source SQL clients,
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30 `Senora <http://senora.sourceforge.net/>`_ and `YASQL <http://sourceforge.net/projects/yasql>`_.
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32 SQLPython is currently only compatible with Oracle databases. Expanding it to other RDBMS is a dream
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33 for "one fine day". Call it "SQLPython 3000".