Re: Extending the DATABASES = {'xx': {'NAME': construct to carry additional information and / or virtual names

2013-04-09 Thread VernonCole
On Monday, April 8, 2013 3:31:48 AM UTC-6, Aymeric Augustin wrote: > > On 8 avr. 2013, at 10:21, VernonCole > wrote: > > > 1) re-implement the argument signature of adodbapi so that it agrees > with the recommendation for positional and keyword arguments in PEP 249, >

Re: Extending the DATABASES = {'xx': {'NAME': construct to carry additional information and / or virtual names

2013-04-08 Thread Aymeric Augustin
On 8 avr. 2013, at 10:21, VernonCole wrote: > 1) re-implement the argument signature of adodbapi so that it agrees with the > recommendation for positional and keyword arguments in PEP 249, except that > the first positional argument is called "connection_string" rather

Re: Extending the DATABASES = {'xx': {'NAME': construct to carry additional information and / or virtual names

2013-04-08 Thread VernonCole
Thanks for the feedback. I have incorporated your suggestions into my design. There is nobody around here I can use for a design review, so, begging your forgiveness, I will have to do it here. Here is how I am setting up the prototype... 1) re-implement the argument signature of adodbapi so

Re: Extending the DATABASES = {'xx': {'NAME': construct to carry additional information and / or virtual names

2013-04-07 Thread Aymeric Augustin
Hi Vernon, Here's my feedback. (It turns out to be quite similar to Michael's.) > 1) Assume that a Proxy based connection will be acceptable for inclusion in > django? It seems to me that a custom database backend could handle this: - subclass an existing backend - override the implementation

Re: Extending the DATABASES = {'xx': {'NAME': construct to carry additional information and / or virtual names

2013-04-04 Thread Michael Manfre
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:10 AM, VernonCole wrote: > In order to meet these goals, is it reasonable to do this?: Are there > better alternatives? > > 1) Assume that a Proxy based connection will be acceptable for inclusion > in django? > Best way to mentally think of this

Extending the DATABASES = {'xx': {'NAME': construct to carry additional information and / or virtual names

2013-04-04 Thread VernonCole
Dear Gurus: At the bottom of this text there will be a question. In order for you to provide a quality answer to the question, you need more information. Perhaps a lot more information. The next few paragraphs will attempt to provide that. They will also be an introduction to a couple of