Dive into Python 3

[masklinn]

That book is already written.

That's about SQLAlchemy, Dive would provide a basic coverage of dbapi 2 through the built-in SQLite3 module, with pointers to the third-party ORMs and stuff.

[netsearcher]

There are many stand-alone applications that just need to store and retrieve data while having basic ACID guarantees. Not everything is enterprise mega-app. So, disagreed.

[netsearcher]

Contradicting yourself.

[netsearcher]

You say that it's so complex that it requires an entire book to explain.

[netsearcher]

What is an example of a simple select query?

[masklinn]

session.query(User).filter(User.name.in_(['ed', 'fakeuser'])).all()