Main interface for loading a existing BioSQL-style database.
This function is the easiest way to retrieve a connection to a
database, doing something like:
>>> from BioSeq import BioSeqDatabase
>>> server = BioSeqDatabase.open_database(user = "root", db="minidb")
the various options are: driver -> The name of the database driver
to use for connecting. The driver should implement the python DB API. By
default, the MySQLdb driver is used. user -> the username to connect
to the database with. password, passwd -> the password to connect with
host -> the hostname of the database database or db -> the name of
the database
|