How to start a transaction?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2009-01-20 12:23, Hussein B wrote:
> Hey,
> I know the basics of interacting with databases in Python.
> How to start a transaction in case I want to group a couple of insert
> and update statements into a single operation?

If you use a Python DB-API compatible database module, then
transactions are enabled per default after you connect to the
database. connection.commit() and .rollback() then complete a
transaction and implicitly start a new one.

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