On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 19:21 +0200, Dieter Maurer wrote: > Art Protin wrote at 2007-5-22 09:22 -0400: > > ... > >In my opinion (which is never as humble as it should be), "qmark" is > >barely adequate; > >numeric should be the required minimum. But now that so many have > >gotten used > >to "qmark", it will probably never go away. > > If we speak about readability and safety, "%(name)s" combined > with a dictionary is far better than "numeric" or "qmark". > > SQL statements can get quite a lot of parameters and readability is > therefore valuable...
I agree, but named style, i.e. ":name" is even more readable, and it's not as easily confused with string formatting. -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig
