Sept. 2, 2004
7:05 p.m.
People who rely on that feature should get a compile time error on 2.3.x, instead of compilation succeeding for some x. People who need to support 2.3 as well should use the Python API to the datetime module, not the C API.
Given that it's a CObject, code could easily be written (and I'm sure cx_Oracle will do this) that attempts to import the CObject and uses a fallback if that fails. I expect that cx_Oracle will be just about the only customer of this API. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) Ask me about gmail.