Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > > My scripts are used to create the tables in the database. I didn't > > think that DB-API covered that. > > The DB-Api covers executin arbirary SQL - either DDL or DML. It is > surely centered around DML, but that doesn't mean that its not usabel to > issue "create ..." statements. > > >However, even if it did, I don't think > > it would handle differences such as the following. > > <snip> > > All that has nocthing to do with teh API - you'd still need your > differentiated DDL - but the communication with the programs would go away. > > Diez
I understand. It certainly gives me an alternative approach - I will experiment to see which suits my purpose best. Many thanks for your assistance. Frank -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list