Hello all, trying to improve date/time handling in PyGreSQL we stumbled over the following questions:
1) Should mx.DateTime still be preferred over stdlib datetime (if both are available)? Or should we handle it the other way around meanwhile? 2) We want to provide a possibility to explicitly choose the preferred date/time type, i.e. mx.DateTime or stdlib datetime or even Ticks or Python tuples, or strings. The mx.odbc module does this via an attribute "datetimeformat" of the connection object that can be set to constant values named DATETIME_DATETIMEFORMAT or STRING_DATETIMEFORMAT (unfortunately, the former means mx.DateTime in this context, and there is no value defined for stdlib datetime). Do you think this is a good idea? Maybe we can agree on a preliminary standard that can be proposed for a future DB-API 3 (btw, is there any work in progress to create such a new version)? -- Christoph _______________________________________________ DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig
