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Cog: a simple object database system in pure Python.

Homepage: http://itamarst.org/software/cog/ Original homepage: http://www.randomly.org/projects/cog/ Feedback to itamar@itamarst.org, original author is oliver@randomly.org. Bob Ippolito has done most of the work in the current releases.

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Quick installation instructions (note: replace x.y with the current version number as needed)

1. Ensure distutils is available and that you are running Python 2.2 or later. You'll also need pybsddb, available from http://pybsddb.sf.net/, if you are running 2.2 (2.3 comes with bsddb built-in.)
2. Extract the Cog source tarball somewhere convenient (you've probably already done this).
3. Change to the cog-x.y subdirectory that was just extracted.
4. (optionally) Test the package in-place:

       $ cd cog
       $ python2.2 test.py

     The tests require write access to the system temp directory (e.g. /tmp
     on *nixes).

5. Change to the cog-x.y directory and execute:

python setup.py install

(you will need write access to the system-wide site-packages directory)

6. (optionally) Test that it installed ok:

       $ python2.2
       >>> import cog, cog.test
       >>> cog.__version__
       'x.y'
       >>> cog.test.run_tests()

     (this runs the same set of tests as in step 4).

7. Done.