[DB-SIG] Question about DBI data types

[M.-A. Lemburg]

John Mitchell wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Steve McClure wrote:
> 
> > I am using the informixdb module and found that floating point data is
> > being passed back to my Python script truncated to an integer value.
> > After a little code tracing I found that the informixdb implementation
> > is at fault.  Now I would like to fix it but the DBI specification is
> > a little vague on what the data should look like.
> 
> The informixdb module just sucks.  The Date types dont work well -- I had
> to use  " select column||'' " because a direct Select would just return a
> date from 1970!
> 
> Anyone have a better version?  Replacement?

Doesn't Informix provide an ODBC API ? You could use one of the
three ODBC implementations then (PythonWin's odbc, Michael Lausch's
soliddb, or my mxODBC).

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