Michael,
On May 22, 6:03 pm, Michael Bayer mike...@zzzcomputing.com wrote:
have you considered using some more industrial strength randomness, like
GUIDs generated from the current timestamp or similar ? the python uuid
module works very well for this.
That's probably the direction I'd go
Adrian,
On May 22, 7:45 pm, Adrian von Bidder avbid...@fortytwo.ch wrote:
I guess you just have to query for your string to see if it's unique.
Performance-wise it shouldn't make a difference, and in Python, I usually
find a simple if even nicer than a try-except block.
Yup, thanks, that
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 02:43:33PM -0400, Michael Bayer wrote:
On May 23, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Alessandro Dentella wrote:
Hi,
when from my pygtk application i commit, I really do::
if self.session.autocommit:
self.session.begin()
well the begin() in this case is doing a flush() of pending data to
ensure that it starts clean - otherwise if you said rollback(), the
state which to roll back to would not be determined.then since you
have autocommit=True its issuing a COMMIT. so a COMMIT is happening
and if you
Adrian von Bidder wrote:
On Friday 22 May 2009 23.00:05 Werner F. Bruhin wrote:
What do you want to do with the autoincrement column? Often these are
used for primary keys, which in turn get used as foreign keys.
I want to use the id as filename; the table will cache some info
You need to make sure that you are closing your sessions--otherwise,
they keep your connections open, and are never returned to the pool.
Make sure to read up on sessions here:
http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/05/session.html
Also, read up on logging:
Hello Adrian,
In my case, I actually build up my SA model, flush it, and save the
file on disk using the id that's been populated on my object after
flush.
Sorry, your original question didn't really give enough details on
what you wanted to do. What you were trying to achieve is not common
