[DB-SIG] PEP249 - Proposed change to DB-API 2.0

Federico Di Gregorio fog@mixadlive.com
Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:16:11 +0200


Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Chris Cogdon's letter:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> 
> > i don't understand. the following code (taken from psycopg)
> > implements *both* format and pyformat:
> >
> >     query = PyString_Format(str, dict_or_tuple)
> >
> > that wotks both with %(name)s stype and a dict or %s stype and a tuple.
> 
> Thats excellent, unfortunately the DB API as it stands has no way of
> advertising the fact that it could support both paramstyles.

agreed.

[snip]

> The issue I wanted to raise first was the lack of support for even
> /reporting/ that it can be done in the API spec, which at the moment
> assumes that the API writer will only ever write one calling method.

agreed again. this will go in the proposed extensions, when we'll have a
proposed extensions document. :)

ciao,
federico

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