On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 16:19 -0400, Jim Patterson wrote: > On 4/21/07, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In light of this development, I propose the following changes > to my > proposal: > * The SQLData class and the ToDB interface will be eliminated. > * The typemap attribute will be renamed to output_typemap. > * An analogous input_typemap will be added. > > I'm not a big fan of the terms input and output for a case like this > they can be confusing. For example does in mean into Python > or into the database. So I would prefer more explicit terms like > "fromdb" or "topython" (I would pick the to/from db since it is > shorter and just as clear).
The wording was intended to be from the point of view of the database, but I agree that it would eliminate confusion to make the direction explicitly clear. I'm fine with fromdb_typemap and todb_typemap instead of output_typemap and input_typemap, respectively. -Carsten _______________________________________________ DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig
