WHAT IS IT: The Sybase module provides a Python interface to the Sybase relational database system. It supports all of the Python Database API, version 2.0 with extensions.
The module is available here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/python-sybase/python-sybase-0.39.tar.gz The module home page is here: http://python-sybase.sourceforge.net/ MAJOR CHANGES SINCE 0.38: * Added type mapping as proposed in http://www.uniqsys.com/~carsten/typemap.html by Carsten Haese * Handle engineer notation of numbers in numeric * Added support for CS_DATE_TYPE * Added support for python Decimal objects in databuf * Possibility to use ct_cursor for some requests * Refactoring - merged Fetchers, CTCursor and CmdCursor in Cursor * Refactored _cancel_cmd * Added a prepare method to Cursor * Additional 'locale' argument to connect and Connection to set the locale of the connection thanks to patch by Harri Pasanen * Better compliance with DBAPI: returns None in nextset when no more set * Added conversion from string to int when assigning to a CS_INT_TYPE DataBuf BUGS CORRECTED SINCE 0.39pre1: * Corrected "undefined symbol" date_datafmt for Sybase versions where CS_DATE_TYPE is not defined (as reported by Alexey Morsov) BUGS CORRECTED SINCE 0.38: * Corrected documentation about CS_CONTEXT Objects thanks to bug report by Derek Harland (close tracker 1748109) * Corrected bug in close() if connection killed from outside thanks to patch by Derek Harland (close tracker 1746220) * Corrected bug if inherit from Sybase.Connection thanks to patch by Derek Harland (close tracker 1719789) * Optimization in fetchall - using fetchmany instead of fetchone to avoid locking time penalty, thanks to patch by Derek Harland (close tracker 1746908) * Corrections to compile with bcp-support against freetds thanks to patch by Klaus-Martin Hansche (close tracker 1724088) * Corrected documentation to compile with FreeTDS and Threads thanks to Derek Harland (close tracker 1709043) * Corrected bug in databuf_alloc: Sybase reports the wrong maxlength for numeric type - verified with Sybase 12.5 - thanks to patch provided by Phil Porter * Better detection of Sybase libraries * the C API to datetime only exists since python 2.4 - disable datetime with previous versions * Corrected python long handling (using CS_NUMERIC instead of CS_LONG which is unspecified) * Corrected various compilation warnings (some linked to python 2.5) The full ChangeLog is here: https://python-sybase.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/python-sybase/tags/r0_39/ChangeLog -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
