Yes, please. I would like to see that. Adodbapi has an output conversion mechanism, but I don't like it particularly well. I would be happy to create a fork of adodbapi for a reference implementation. It will talk to any major database engine, but unfortunately, only on Windows. Vernon Cole (sent from my 'droid phone)
On Jul 19, 2011 3:44 AM, "Federico Di Gregorio" <federico.digrego...@dndg.it> wrote: > On 18/07/11 14:54, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > [snip] >> We will likely have to introduce a new TEXT() constructor >> which maps data objects to text data and then takes care >> of the database specific encoding issues. >> >> There are similar issues with float/decimal and date/time >> values. >> >> It would be great if we could resolve all of these using >> a data type mapping facility that defines input and output >> mappings in an efficient and flexible way. > > At least 2 drivers (psycopg and pysqlite) provide a Python->backend > mechanism based on PEP 246, "Object Adaptation". If other implementors > are interested I can write a short explanation about how it works and > why it was chosen only for the Python->backend path and not for the reverse. > > federico > > -- > Federico Di Gregorio federico.digrego...@dndg.it > Studio Associato Di Nunzio e Di Gregorio http://dndg.it > Se sai che hai un ***** di file così, lo manovri subito. -- vodka > _______________________________________________ > DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig
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