[DB-SIG] perl-DBI like module for Python?

[Stuart Bishop]

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On 26/05/2004, at 2:51 PM, Anthony Tuininga wrote:

> Stuart Bishop wrote:
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>> On 24/05/2004, at 4:57 PM, Mihai Ibanescu wrote:
>>> Example: I have my application running against Postgres. I have to 
>>> be able to
>>> port it to Oracle too. Unfortunately, code that tries to catch
>>> DatabaseException will have to look for the cx_Oracle 
>>> DatabaseException, not
>>> for the postgres one.
>> The exceptions are most likely exposed through your connection object
>> (I think most the major drivers support this option now?).
>> try:
>>     cur = con.cursor()
>>     cur.excecute('select foo from bar')
>> except con.DatabaseException:
>>     print 'Oops!'
>
> Huh? My reading of the DB API says that the exceptions are defined at 
> the __MODULE__ level, not the __CONNECTION__ level. Or am I missing 
> something??? Please inform me!

Its one of the optional extensions. Search for 'Connection Attributes
.Error' in http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0249.html

I think it is high time to release DB-API 2.1 with most of the
optional extensions moved to core.

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Stuart Bishop <stuart at stuartbishop.net>
http://www.stuartbishop.net/
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