Do you want to use databases? or learn how to use SQL + Python to manipulate a database. If you want to do the latter stick with the above solutions. But if you want to just use a database and not care to much about how it works you should give
SQLObject or
SQLAlchemy. They allow you map objects to database tables. They aren't perfect and performance won't be as good (unless you down to raw SQL) but they provide a pythonic way to access databases.