[xquery-talk] [xml-dev] Re: using FLWOR expressions (aka SQL..) directly in Python

[Ihe Onwuka]

It answers my question.

I would like to see how this goes down in the Python community so do you
have links to blogs and stuff where the announcement has been made.

My 2 cents would have been to release and not mention anything about XQuery
or JSONiq

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 1:59 PM, daniela florescu <dflorescu at me.com> wrote:

> Ihe,
>
> Based on my experience, lots of data processing people use Python those
> days, yet they are not helped
> much by the available tools in their ecosystem.
>
> PythonQL is to Python what LinQ was to C#, that’s all.
>
> A simple and more natural way to run queries directly integrated in your
> normal programming and
> a replacement to the horrible scripts that most people need to write today
> for data manipulation.
>
> Now, is this “XQuery" !? Nope.
>
> The FLWOR expressions of XQuery have nothing to do with XML, neither
> syntactically, nor semantically.
>
> They are just a generalized, cleaner and more powerful form of data
> comprehension , out of which SQL’s SELECT-FROM-WHERE
> is an example, but not the only one. (Python has it’s now form of
> comprehension for example).
>
> In fact in PhytonQL we tried to avoid what we perceived as serious
> problems with the adoption of XQuery.
>
> For example we made the following syntactic choices (good or bad, we’ll
> see…):
>
> 1. FOR and FROM are synonyms. Choose whatever you like the best…..
> 2. IF and WHERE are synonyms. Again, choose whatever you like the best…..
> 3. We avoided the (over)loaded RETURN keyword of XQuery and called it
> SELECT like in SQL.
> 4. We put the SELECT clause first, like in SQL.
>
> But other then this, it’s just 100% FLWOr expression, with windowing,
> grouping, etc.
>
> Does this make sense ?
>
> Best regards
> Dana
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 21, 2016, at 10:46 AM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is the big thing here integration with the Python ecosystem?
> Otherwise what is this offering to people who are not XQueryphobic.
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 1:13 PM, daniela florescu <dflorescu at me.com>
> wrote:
>
>> For all exasperated data scientists writing mind bending, complicated
>> Python scrips to process their data: the power of complex,
>> yet familiar, compact and optimizable SQL queries directly in Python,
>> running on structured as well as unstructured data (XML, JSON).
>>
>> http://www.pythonql.org
>>
>> Well, actually it’s not SQL per se. It’s the better, cleaner and more
>> powerful version of SELECT-FROM-WHERE,…. its the
>> power of XQuery’s FLWOR expressions, directly usable as an expression in
>> Python — together with any other expected goodies,
>> complex path expressions, etc.
>>
>> Enjoy.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Dana
>>
>>
>>
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