How Can I Read a PostgreSQL Database with Python?

PostgreSQL is the most powerful database system available. While MySQL is more popular, particularly among PHP users, its does not have the level of functionality found in PostgreSQL. If you use PostgreSQL and wonder: "How can I make Python talk to PostgreSQL?", be sure to read the tutorials available here on reading and writing PostgreSQL databases with psycopg. What is more, you will find in the section on databases that Python speaks many dialects of SQL.