Re: [python-win32] ODBC dates and buffers

2008-11-11 Thread Vernon Cole
+1 for an immediate switch to using datetime objects in odbc. That will make adodbapi and odbc a little more compatible. (They will never be completely compatible since odbc was written to an earlier api spec.) Because of historical reasons, adodbapi defaults to mxDateTime, if present, and

[python-win32] ODBC dates and buffers

2008-11-10 Thread Mark Hammond
The 'odbc' module has always had its own 'date' object - an object with a 'value' attribute holding a integer which is supposed to be compatible with the time module. It predates the datetime module by many years. As part of the py3k work Roger has been doing, he dropped the custom types from