The Firebird Base library for Python

The firebird-base package provides common Python 3 modules used by Firebird Project in various development projects. However, these modules have general applicability outside the scope of development for Firebird RDBMS.

Topic covered by firebird-base package:

  • General data types like singletons, sentinels and objects with identity.

  • Unified system for data conversion from/to string.

  • DataList and Registry collection types with advanced data-processing cappabilities.

  • Work with structured binary buffers.

  • Global registry of Google protobuf messages and enumerations.

  • Extended configuration system based on ConfigParser.

  • Context-based logging.

  • Trace/audit for class instances.

  • General “hook” mechanism.

  • Callback system based on Signals and Slots, and “Delphi events”.

Note

Requires Python 3.8+

Tip

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