Re: [DB-SIG] URI syntax for databases

2005-03-31 Thread Ian Bicking
Dittmar, Daniel wrote: In the end, I think it's more efficient to implement such a function in an abstraction layer which is maintained independently from the DB-API database modules. Otherwise, you'd have to wait for all modules to implement the change and that can take a few years. Perhaps the a

RE: [DB-SIG] URI syntax for databases

2005-03-31 Thread Dittmar, Daniel
>In the end, I think it's more efficient to implement such >a function in an abstraction layer which is maintained >independently from the DB-API database modules. Otherwise, >you'd have to wait for all modules to implement the change >and that can take a few years. Perhaps the abstraction layer s

Re: [DB-SIG] URI syntax for databases

2005-03-31 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Ian Bicking wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> What we could add an optional keyword argument uri="..." which >> database could then interpret according to your suggestion. > > > I suppose that would be fine -- I thought it would be easier to > implement it on top of connect instead of as an ext