James Henstridge wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:52 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >> The case for having cursors automatically closed by >> is not problematic > > I don't think it makes sense to make cursors behave as context > managers for transaction handling. Transactions are a connection > level concept affecting all the cursors for the connection, so this > would just confuse matters and lead to coding errors.
Just to clarify: The idea is to open a cursor and have the context manager close it automatically. This doesn't have anything to do with the transaction on the connection. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jul 18 2011) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig
