[DB-SIG] [SQLObject] Re: SQLite connection - relative filename

[Ian Bicking]

Clark, Chris M wrote:
>>def uri_parse(uri):
>>     module_name = uri.split(':', 1)
> 
> .....
> 
> 
> My 2 cents: for parsing the URI I like semi-colons ';' as separators, it
> is a little ODBC like but it has less collisions than colons do.

This particular colon is for indicating the database type, like 
mysql:..., or pgsql:... -- it's what makes something a URI (instead of a 
DSN... though I'm even sure what DSN stands for).  After that it's 
potentially entirely up to the database driver, though of course some 
uniformity is nice.  Typical DSNs, from what I can tell, are parsed in 
an up-front manner into a set of keys and values; though maybe they 
sometimes include a prefix indicating database type...?  Java has 
database URIs too, don't they?  But they are all like jdbc:..., correct? 
  Of course, following that pattern you could get 
dbapi:jdbc:postgresql://... which feels awfully weird to me.

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