On 10-02-2009, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > On 2009-02-10 18:42, William Dode wrote: >> On 10-02-2009, Robert Brewer wrote: >>> Vernon Cole wrote: >>>> Should adodbapi be changed so that datetime.datetime is >>>> the default return type for SQL date-time columns? >>> Almost certainly at the next major version. > > It's probably better to make this an explicit choice. > >> For me the weird problem of a different behaviour if mx is installed or >> not is enough to change this in a minor version. >> >> The question will be, what to do if the release stay compatible with >> python < 2.3 >> >> iirc Guido argued to put this (datetime by default) in the dbapi spec >> isn'it ? > > The DB-API allows the module to make a choice of which implementation > to use. mxDateTime has been the defacto standard for many years, so > there's a lot of code out there relying on it and mxDateTime is > still very much alive. > > Database modules are free to support more than just one way to interface > to date/time values in databases, e.g. Unix ticks, time tuples, > strings, mxDateTime, datetime module, custom types, etc. The spec > itself doesn't mandate a default.
It could be one by default and in the same time let the user choose an other one. Anyway i don't care a lot, we can let the defacto standard change slowly at the rythm of each database... Could we make a round table now ? -- William Dodé - http://flibuste.net Informaticien Indépendant _______________________________________________ DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig
