Hi Thomas,

>The architecture you describe sounds very similar to the things I targeted, even down to speeding some things up via Cython.
>The whole thing did not materialize because

>a) Python was an uphill battle compared to java when discussing with large clients having own IT centers
>b) the mobile story of Python back then was somewhere between lousy and checkered

That's more than understandable. Python is currently getting more attention in those fields. But sure, this is most recent and one can certainly understand why java is still preferred in a server environment.

>If it had occurred, I would have written something similar to a local cursor/cursoradapter layer for Dabo utilizing Sqlite, using the Dabo list of dicts only for list based GUI >elements but munging data locally via Sqlite similar to cursors in vfp.

Thanks for you input.

Daniel