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Is Python well suited for database applications?

 
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I am a developer who works primarily with database applications in the Microsoft Visual FoxPro environment. As you may know, Microsoft is planning to discontinue support for FoxPro in the coming years. I have heard Python mentioned as a possible suitable replacement. Visual FoxPro offers a fairly high level OOP environment, and obviously it has integrated database support. What are your thoughts on the possibility of migrating from this type of development environment to Python?

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Are you uncomfortable leaving the VFP GUI? If so, you may be better off moving to VB or C# and the Visual Studio environment. There are some Python IDE's available, but I haven't used them so I can't compare them with VFP.
Python is a general-purpose programming language, as opposed to VFP, which is tightly integrated with database access, so the database functionality will seem less obvious.
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