[ANN] pysqlite 2.1.0 released

[Gerhard Häring]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> Gerhard Häring <gh at ghaering.de> wrote:
>    ...
> 
>>An optimized shortcut has been enabled to retrieve Unicode strings for
>>non-ASCII data, but bytestrings for non-ASCII text:
>>
>>    con.text_factory = sqlite.OptimizedUnicode
> 
> 
> I assume you mean "ASCII text" rather than "non-ASCII text" here?

You're right. I stole this idea from APSW, another SQLite wrapper, which 
does this by default in order to reduce memory usage and increase 
performance a little bit for the common use case of ASCII text.

You might argue that that this is premature optimization, but things 
like this do make a difference if you process a lot of text.

Using this feature should be pretty compatible to the default of always 
using Unicode, because `unicode` and `str` have pretty much the same 
interface. But I wasn't 100 % sure, so I kept the old pysqlite default 
of Unicode only and made the optimized case using OptimizedUnicode an 
option.

> At any rate, my compliments for a new release (which looks great!) of a
> most excellent module!

Thanks :-)

-- Gerhard