Sybase module (was Re: Postgres support)

[Andy Todd]

Dave Cole <djc at object-craft.com.au> wrote in 
<mailman.994483335.6336.python-list at python.org>:

>>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Churches <tchur at optushome.com.au> writes:
>
>Tim> Skip Montanaro wrote:
>>>
>Edward> Python needs a ready to use cross database module which
>Edward> handles Oracle, DB2, SQL-Server, Sybase, and Informix.  If it
>Edward> handles
>>>  "Python Sybase" netted this:
>>> 
>>> http://www.stecf.org/~npirzkal/python/sybase/
>
>Tim> I think the Python<->Sybase module of choice would have to be the
>Tim> Sybase module (alpha status notwithstanding) being developed by
>Tim> Object Craft, who are based in Melbourne, Australia. See
>Tim> http://www.object-craft.com.au
>
>The alpha status of the current unannounced release is probably a bit
>extreme.  Last week a bug was reported where Cursor.execute() would
>fail after around 9000 different SQL commands over the same
>connection.  It turned out that I had forgotten one important stage of
>the finalisation of the dynamic SQL sequence.  The fix was the
>addition of about five lines in the Sybase.py module.  Things seem to
>be OK now.
>
>At some time in the not too distant future I will be releasing 0.30
>which will truely be an alpha release...
>
>Tim> Ava Gardner quipped that Melbourne was a good place to make a
>Tim> movie about the end of the world when she was filming the cinema
>Tim> version of Neville Shute's "On the Beach" (in which the Northern
>Tim> Hemisphere obliterates itself in a bout of mutually assured
>Tim> thermonuclear destruction, with the Southern Hemisphere
>Tim> eventually succumbing to radioactive fallout, but only after
>Tim> plenty of soul-searching, a few bottles of Scotch and a brief but
>Tim> passionate love affairs). Melbourne also appears to be a good
>Tim> place to write Python modules.
>
>Tim> Tim C Sydney, Australia
>
>Much better Sydney in any event (sorry, couldn't resist).
>
>- Dave
>

And at least Melburnians manage to turn out for a rugby match, unlike the 
banana benders last weekend.

Go the Lions!
Andy


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