executemany ('SELECT ...') (was: [DB-SIG] DBAPI-2.0 clarifications)

[brian zimmer]

At 06:14 PM 3/19/2001 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

>Note that the original idea behind .nextset() was to allow
>stored procedures to pass back multiple result sets. The idea
>of having .executemany() produce mutliple result sets only came
>up recently on the db-sig list -- I can't really say, that I like
>it...

Really?  I do it all the time.  Rather than building up a big "in (?, ?, 
..., ?)" I create the single "= ?" and pass in the sequence of 
sequences.  I reuse the prepared statement for each execution and build the 
results up for access in .nextset().  I do like it for the reason of 
knowing what fetched what and for minimizing having to do:

inclause = "in (%s)" % (",".join(("?",)*len(params)))

I could additionally include the id I'm querying in the result set, but I 
already have it.  No big deal either way I guess, but I much prefer the 
.execute*() for select than building the in list.  For what I do I haven't 
noticed any performance differences (content management primarily with 
Informix) and I like the syntax more.

brian