Hi all
I've recently been writing some code that for various reasons needs to
support a couple of different PostgreSQL APIs for Python, and have the
potential for MySQL support down the track. I've been running into a
fair bit of trouble with the DB API, in particular the freedom it gives
DB modul
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 18:29, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Would there be any interest in releasing a DB-API 2.1 with one
> parameter style made MANDATORY, and a tuple of other supported styles in
> .paramstyles ? I think existing modules implemented in Python could be
> retrofitted to take extended
Craig Ringer wrote:
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 18:29, Craig Ringer wrote:
Would there be any interest in releasing a DB-API 2.1 with one
parameter style made MANDATORY, and a tuple of other supported styles in
.paramstyles ? I think existing modules implemented in Python could be
retrofitted to
Craig> IMO it'd also be very nice to support **kw calling style, ie to
Craig> make:
Craig> cursor.execute("SELECT somerow FROM table WHERE otherrow = %(name)s",
Craig>{'name': 'fred'})
Craig> equivalent to:
Craig> cursor.execute("SELECT somerow FROM table
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 21:16, Steve Holden wrote:
> > So ... anybody for a DB-API 2.1 with mandatory pyformat support and a
> > tuple dbmodule.paramstyles for supported styles?
>
> Well, you can certainly put me down as supporting less variability in
> allowed paramstyles, to the extent that it
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:08:10 +0800,
Craig Ringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IMO it'd also be very nice to support **kw calling style, ie to make:
> cursor.execute("SELECT somerow FROM table WHERE otherrow = %(name)s",
>{'name': 'fred'})
> equivalent to:
> cursor.execute("SELEC
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:02:59 +0800
Craig Ringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not actually against the number of choices available, I'm just
> concerned that there is currently no _single_ choice that can be
> guaranteed to work, and that it's hard to identify all styles a given
> API supports.
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Craig Ringer wrote:
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 21:16, Steve Holden wrote:
So ... anybody for a DB-API 2.1 with mandatory pyformat support and a
tuple dbmodule.paramstyles for supported styles?
Well, you can certainly put me down as supporting less variability i
