KirbyBase is a simple database management system, written in pure-Python, that stores its data in plain-text files.

In meeting your DBMS needs, KirbyBase will fit in somewhere between small SQL database management systems like MySQL or SQLite, and plain text files.

Here are some key features of "KirbyBase For Python":

· It runs anywhere that Python runs and is easy to distribute, since the entire DBMS is in one code file.
· All data is kept in plain-text, delimited files that can be edited by hand. This gives you the ability to make changes by just opening the file up in a text editor.
· It can be used as an embedded database or in a client/server, multi-user mode. To switch from one mode to the other, you simply change one line in your program.
· Tables are kept on disk during use and accessed from disk when selecting, updating, inserting, and deleting records. Changes to a table are written immediately to disk. KirbyBase is not an "in-memory" database. Once you update the database in your program, you can be assured that the change has been saved to disk.
· You can specify the type of data that each field will hold. The available data types are: String, Integer, Float, Boolean, Date, and DateTime.
· The query syntax is more "pythonic" than SQL.
· All inserted records have an auto-incrementing primary key that is guaranteed to uniquely identify the record throughout its lifetime.
· You can specify that the result set be sorted on multiple fields, each one either ascending or descending.

Requirements:

· Python 2.3 or later