Relational/Logic Programming in Python?

python prolog logic-programming
AJ. picture AJ. · Dec 16, 2009 · Viewed 18.5k times · Source

I'm a longtime python developer and recently have been introduced to Prolog. I love the concept of using relationship rules for certain kinds of tasks, and would like to add this to my repertoire.

Are there any good libraries for logic programming in Python? I've done some searching on Google but only found the following:

jtauber's blog series on relational_python

Would love to compare to some others...thanks!

-aj

Answer

user474491 picture user474491 · Jul 4, 2012

You may want to use pyDatalog, a logic programming library that I developed for Python implementing Datalog. It also works with SQLAlchemy to query relational databases using logic clauses.

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