+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
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
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