[DB-SIG] Problem with exception classes

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> I've been using DB-API2 for a while now but have run into a few issues
> with respect to portability between different SQL backends. One of those
> is the paramstyle, which I'm happy to see might be addressed in DB-API3.
> 
> However issue I ran into is exception classes: a lot of my code is
> passed a database connectino or a cursor and does not know which backend
> it is attached to. However since DB-API2 species that exception types
> can only be accesses directly from the driver module that means I can
> not perform any exception handling. At the moment I work around this
> by using a wrapper that copies the exception classes into the connection
> instance (inspired by the MySQLdb module, which does that as well).
> 
> Is that something that would be useful to add to DB-API3 as well?

I guess this would be possible :-)

FWIW, mxODBC is exposing the exception
objects on the connection objects as well and it also provides
a .connection attribute on cursors, so passing around cursors
still let's you use exception handling.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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