To connect to a PostgreSQL database from Python, you can use an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) tool, like SQLAlchemy, or a driver, like Psycopg, to directly issue raw SQL queries to the database. Using an ORM is the right choice when queries are not expected to be complex, when application developers also work on the database, or the team is not experienced in SQL. Using a driver instead of an ORM is the right choice when the nature of the application makes it necessary to write (and optimize) ......