I summarized the discussion so far at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/DbApi3. I hope I haven't shortchanged anyone. There's a list of all the styles where driver authors can check off which one would be easy to implement and which would be difficult. Daniel Dittmar -- Daniel Dittmar SAP DB, SAP Labs Berlin daniel.dittmar@sap.com http://www.sapdb.org