On May 17, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Daniele Varrazzo <daniele.varra...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Michael Bayer <mike...@zzzcomputing.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> IMHO it is explicit, whether you say:
>>
>> cursor.execute(stmt, { < dictionary>} )
>>
>> vs.
>>
>> cursor.execute(stmt, [ <list>] )
>>
>> the type of parameters passed indicates the style of params to search for.
>> It's explicit via type inference. if a dictionary is passed, "?" symbols
>> are left alone. If a list is passed, ":param" symbols are left alone. If
>> neither is passed, then neither ? nor :param are searched for.
>
> This only resolves the ambiguity between positional or mapping
> arguments. It doesn't help a driver to disambiguate between two
> different mapping styles, such as named or pyformat.
the proposal includes that only qmark and named are available. There would be
no pyformat, format, numeric.
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