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This package provides official Python Database API 2.0-compliant driver for the opensource relational database Firebird®. In addition to the minimal feature set ofthe standard Python DB API, this driver also exposes the new (interface-based)client API introduced in Firebird 3, and number of additional extensions andenhancements for convenient use of Firebird RDBMS.

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• Installation
• License
• Documentation

Requires: Firebird 3+

pip install firebird-driver

Seefirebird-lib package for optional extensionsto this driver.

firebird-driver is distributed under the terms of theMIT license.

The documentation for this package is available athttps://firebird-driver.readthedocs.io

This project useshatch , so you can use:

hatch test

to run all tests for default Python version (3.11). To run tests for all Python versionsdefined in matrix, use-a switch.

This project is usingpytest for testing, and ourtests add several options viatests/conftest.py.

By default, tests are configured to use local Firebird installation via network access.To use local installation inembedded mode, comment out the section:

[tool.hatch.envs.hatch-test]extra-args = ["--host=localhost"]

inpyproject.toml.

You can also use firebird driver configuration file to specify server(s) that should beused for testing, and then pass--driver-config and--server options topytest.