From sable at users.sourceforge.net  Mon Apr 14 12:09:10 2008
From: sable at users.sourceforge.net (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien_Sabl=E9?=)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:09:10 +0200
Subject: [DB-SIG] Sybase module 0.39 released
Message-ID: <48032D46.4050203@users.sourceforge.net>

WHAT IS IT:

The Sybase module provides a Python interface to the Sybase relational
database system.  It supports all of the Python Database API, version
2.0 with extensions.

The module is available here:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/python-sybase/python-sybase-0.39.tar.gz

The module home page is here:

http://python-sybase.sourceforge.net/

MAJOR CHANGES SINCE 0.38:

* Added type mapping as proposed in
   http://www.uniqsys.com/~carsten/typemap.html by Carsten Haese
* Handle engineer notation of numbers in numeric
* Added support for CS_DATE_TYPE
* Added support for python Decimal objects in databuf
* Possibility to use ct_cursor for some requests
* Refactoring - merged Fetchers, CTCursor and CmdCursor in Cursor
* Refactored _cancel_cmd
* Added a prepare method to Cursor
* Additional 'locale' argument to connect and Connection to set the
   locale of the connection thanks to patch by Harri Pasanen
* Better compliance with DBAPI: returns None in nextset when no more
   set
* Added conversion from string to int when assigning to a CS_INT_TYPE
   DataBuf

BUGS CORRECTED SINCE 0.39pre1:

* Corrected "undefined symbol" date_datafmt for Sybase versions where
   CS_DATE_TYPE is not defined (as reported by Alexey Morsov)

BUGS CORRECTED SINCE 0.38:

* Corrected documentation about CS_CONTEXT Objects thanks to bug
   report by Derek Harland (close tracker 1748109)
* Corrected bug in close() if connection killed from outside thanks to
   patch by Derek Harland (close tracker 1746220)
* Corrected bug if inherit from Sybase.Connection thanks to patch by
   Derek Harland (close tracker 1719789)
* Optimization in fetchall - using fetchmany instead of fetchone to
   avoid locking time penalty, thanks to patch by Derek Harland (close
   tracker 1746908)
* Corrections to compile with bcp-support against freetds thanks to
   patch by Klaus-Martin Hansche (close tracker 1724088)
* Corrected documentation to compile with FreeTDS and Threads thanks
   to Derek Harland (close tracker 1709043)
* Corrected bug in databuf_alloc: Sybase reports the wrong maxlength
   for numeric type - verified with Sybase 12.5 - thanks to patch
   provided by Phil Porter
* Better detection of Sybase libraries
* the C API to datetime only exists since python 2.4 - disable
   datetime with previous versions
* Corrected python long handling (using CS_NUMERIC instead of CS_LONG
   which is unspecified)
* Corrected various compilation warnings (some linked to python 2.5)

The full ChangeLog is here:

https://python-sybase.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/python-sybase/tags/r0_39/ChangeLog