<html> <head> <title>KInterbasDB Documentation</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="global.css" type="text/css"> </head> <body> <h1 class="compactHeading">KInterbasDB</h1> <h3 class="compactHeading">A Python Extension Package for the Interbase®/Firebird Relational Databases</h3> <h5 class="compactHeading"><KINTERBASDB___VERSION>( Version: <span style="font-size: 125%;">3.2</span> ) ( This distribution was created on 2006.08.11 at 15:16 UTC. )</KINTERBASDB___VERSION></h5> <hr> <h3 class="compactHeading">Documentation Contents:</h3> <ul class="compactList"> <li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li> <li>Installation Guides <ul> <li><a href="installation-source.html">Source Distribution</a></li> <li><a href="installation-binary.html">Binary Distributions</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="usage.html">Usage Guide</a> <em>(Updated for KInterbasDB 3.2.)</em> </li> <li><a href="changelog.txt">Changelog</a></li> <li><a href="license.txt">License</a></li> <li><a href="Python-DB-API-2.0.html">Python Database API Specification 2.0</a> (Local Copy)</li> <li><a href="links.html">Links</a></li> </ul> <hr> <a name="introduction"><h3 class="compactHeading">Introduction</h3></a> <p> KInterbasDB is a <a href="http://python.org">Python</a> extension package that implements <a href="Python-DB-API-2.0.html">Python Database API 2.0</a>-compliant support for the open source relational database <a href="http://firebirdsql.org">Firebird<a/> and some versions of its proprietary cousin Borland® <a href="http://www.interbase.com">Interbase®</a>. In addition to the minimal feature set of the standard Python DB API, KInterbasDB also exposes nearly the entire native client API of the database engine. </p> <p> KInterbasDB is free--covered by a permissive BSD-style <a href="license.txt">license</a> that both commercial and noncommercial users should find agreeable. </p> <h3 class="compactHeading">Project Web Site</h3> <p> The KInterbasDB project web site is graciously hosted by <a href="http://www.sourceforge.net">SourceForge</a> at <a href="http://kinterbasdb.sourceforge.net">http://kinterbasdb.sourceforge.net</a> </p> <p> Bug reports, feature requests, and other communication with the KInterbasDB developers should be delivered via that site. </p> </body> </html>