[DB-SIG] API 3.0 limiting paramstyle to ['named', 'qmark'] is okay. ('format' is not desirable)

[Daniele Varrazzo]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Christoph Zwerschke <cito at online.de> wrote:
>
> Another option would be to get rid of the parameter completely, and silently
> accept both styles, whatever is used in the sql command passed to the
> execute method.

This is impossible:

cur.execute("""Select 'Guess how many params this query has?? ? ? %s';""", args)

Please, to everybody involved in this discussion: stop thinking that
giving more choices makes people's life easier. No: it makes it more
complicated, whatever the person in question is a database driver
author, a single database user or a multi-library database author.

-- Daniele