Glossary

DBAPI

PEP 249 – Python Database API Specification v2.0

ipdb

ipdb exports functions to access the IPython debugger, which features tab completion, syntax highlighting, better tracebacks, better introspection with the same interface as the pdb module.

MySQL

A popular database server.

http://www.mysql.com/

pep8

Python style guide checker

pep8 is a tool to check your Python code against some of the style conventions in PEP 8 – Style Guide for Python Code.

pyflakes

passive checker of Python programs

A simple program which checks Python source files for errors.

Pyflakes analyzes programs and detects various errors. It works by parsing the source file, not importing it, so it is safe to use on modules with side effects. It’s also much faster.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyflakes

PyMySQL

Pure-Python MySQL client library. The goal of PyMySQL is to be a drop-in replacement for MySQLdb and work on CPython, PyPy, IronPython and Jython.

https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL

sqlalchemy

The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper.

http://www.sqlalchemy.org/