SQLObject is a popular Object Relational Manager for providing an object interface to your database, with tables as classes, rows as instances, and columns as attributes. SQLObject includes a Python-object-based query language that makes SQL more abstract, and provides substantial database independence for applications. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird, Sybase, MSSQL and MaxDB (SAPDB). This requires pysetuptools and FormEncode. Also, docutils, if installed, is used to build html docs at build time, but that is optional. NOTE: SQLObject checks for supported databases at run time. Following Python modules are needed for the actual databases: MySQLdb for MySQL, psycopg or pgdb for PostresSQL, pysqlite for SQLite, kinterbasdb for Firebird, Sybase for Sybase, adodbapi or pymssql for MSSQL, and sapdb for MaxDB.