Roundtrip SQL data especially datetime

[John Nagle]

GHUM wrote:
>>    One side effect of this being third party code is that hosting
>>services may not have it available, even when they have both Python
>>and MySQL up.  This is never a problem with Perl or PHP, so that's
>>a negative for Python.
> 
> 
> I for one think it is a good thing to not have MySQL adapters
> integrated into Python core. Neither the philopsophie, nor the licence
> of the two products fit together.

    It's a wire protocol.  At one end of a socket, there's MySQL, and
at the other end, there's a client.  Neither side needs code from
the other.  The protocol is published.  So there's no license issue.

				John Nagle