This way of define models have some increase? ( as Django and as SqlAlchemy)

[Marlysson Silva]

References

http://www.web2py.com/AlterEgo/default/show/189

Django Like:

http://web2py.com/AlterEgo/default/download/document.file.08621820-64d8-4db5-a85c-569a647a4437.py

SQLAlchemyLike

http://web2py.com/AlterEgo/default/download/document.file.f87605ed-edb6-4c18-810d-73f2f1926865.py

#update: fixing link sqlalchemy

[Leonel Câmara]

The Django if you like ORMs, I personally hate them, one of the main reasons I picked web2py was precisely because it didn't have one. I much prefer the simpler abstraction provided by the DAL. I find that blackboxes are an illusion so I don't like complicated abstractions that always end up leaking way more than they should.

The sqlalchemy one is OK but I don't see the advantage, if you are going that route you may just as well simply use SQLAlchemy instead of using pyDAL. Why would you put a layer just to make one look like the other? I would find it more useful to make a 2 way model translator so one could automatically translate model files.