[DB-SIG] checking column types from cursor object in a database-independent way?

[Vernon D. Cole]

I forgot: pywin32 just dropped support for Python 2.3 so I can use
decorators now.

Michael, you have just contributed four lines of code to the next version
of adodbapi.
--
Vernon



On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Michael Bayer <mike_mp at zzzcomputing.com>wrote:

>
> On May 2, 2013, at 1:12 PM, Vernon D. Cole <vernondcole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So -- here is a prototype...
>
>
>> >>> import adodbapi
>>
>> >>> c = adodbapi.connect("provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;data
>>> source=../examples/test.mdb")
>>
>> >>> c
>>
>> <adodbapi.adodbapi.Connection object at 0x0000000001ECDF60>
>>
>> >>> c.dbapi
>>
>> <module 'adodbapi.apibase' from
>>> 'C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\adodbapi\apibase.
>>
>> pyc'>
>>
>> >>> c.dbapi.NUMBER
>>
>> <adodbapi.apibase.DBAPITypeObject object at 0x00000000025E8358>
>>
>>
> My implementation is:
>
>
>> import apibase as api
>
> class Connection(object):
>
>     # include connection attributes as class attributes required by api
>> definition.
>
>     dbapi = property(lambda cls: api)
>
>     Warning = api.Warning
>
>  ... (etc.)
>>
>
> Is that what we want to see?
>
>
> Python @property will pick up on the __doc__ of the method (which is also
> expected to be an instance method), so that can be specified traditionally:
>
> class Connection(object):
>     @property
>     def dbapi(self):
>         "Return a reference to the DBAPI module for this Connection."
>         return api
>
>
>
>
> --
> Vernon Cole
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:54 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>
>> On 02.05.2013 15:53, Michael Bayer wrote:
>> >> Another readable candidate would be "connection.dbapi".
>> >
>> > +1 for connection.dbapi
>>
>> Sounds like we're reaching consensus :-)
>>
>> --
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