Description

FDB is a `Python`_ library package that implements `Python Database API 2.0`_-compliant support for the open source relational database `Firebird`_ ®. In addition to the minimal feature set of the standard Python DB API, FDB exposes the entire native (old-style) client API of the database engine. It also contains extensive collection of submodules that simplify various Firebird-related tasks. FDB is implemented on top of Firebird client library using ctypes, and currently uses only traditional Firebird API. FDB works with Firebird 2.0 and newer, and Python 2.7 and 3.4+. FDB is free – covered by a permissive BSD-style license that both commercial and noncommercial users should find agreeable. FDB is replacement for discontinued KInterbasDB library, and as such it's designed to be as much compatible with KInterbasDB as possible, but there are some differences. See FDB documentation for full description of these differences. .. _Python: http://python.org .. _Python Database API 2.0: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/ .. _Firebird: http://www.firebirdsql.org