On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 16:59 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > How about making both qmark and named the minimum required > > parameter styles ?! > > > > Forget minimum. > Make qmark and named requried. > Make paramstyle something that is set/passed in as part of the init, and is > ReadOnly after that. It should default to the same thing in all > implementations. > > I think we can make it super simple, and it will be way better than the > current > implementation. > > For backwards compatibility, It should be pretty easy to wrap all the v3 > modules in a v2 conversion layer that will add the extra 'features' like > pyformat.
And how is bolting on a conversion layer "super simple" compared to not breaking backwards compatibility in the first place? -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig