[DB-SIG] Test suite update for format conversion accuracy.

[Daniele Varrazzo]

On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 10:49 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Daniele Varrazzo
> <daniele.varrazzo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > In [6]: cur.execute("insert into test values (?, 'wat?')", ('hi'))
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ProgrammingError                          Traceback (most recent call last)
> > /home/piro/src/qmarkpg/<ipython-input-6-b8a3105dc710> in <module>()
> > ----> 1 cur.execute("insert into test values (?, 'wat?')", ('hi'))
> >
> > ProgrammingError: Incorrect number of bindings supplied. The current
> > statement uses 1, and there are 2 supplied.
> 
> Shouldn't ('hi') be ('hi',)  ?
> 
> >>> cur.execute("insert into test values (?, 'wat?')", ('hi',))
> <sqlite3.Cursor object at 0x7f28919eb570>

Oh, right, sqlite (the library, not the python module) can deal with a
question mark in a string ok. Wrong example then.

Grepping for '?' in the _sqlite directory in Python source suggests that
literals ? are not looked for anywhere; this implies that the module
doesn't process them before passing the string to the client library
(that in the sqlite specific case is *the* database, in client-server
libraries this is not the case but I don't have any handy to test).

If any module wanted to support a placeholder different than the native
one would find the need to parse the query string, which I don't think
is a reasonable thing to ask to a client library.


-- 
Daniele