On 17.05.2013 18:07, Michael Bayer wrote:
>
> On May 17, 2013, at 11:36 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote:
>
>> On 17.05.2013 17:10, Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
>>> Am 17.05.2013 17:01, schrieb Vernon D. Cole:
>>>> What other options should be considered?
>>>
>>> Another option would be to get rid of the parameter completely, and
>>> silently accept both styles,
>>> whatever is used in the sql command passed to the execute method.
>>
>> This would violate explicit is better than implicit, and it also
>> creates problems with raising proper errors, e.g. passing a
>> dictionary of parameters to a SQL command which uses a mix
>> of qmark and named style parameter markers.
>>
>> We do need to keep this explicit.
>
>
> 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.
Hmm, then how do you tell whether this code is correct or not ? :-)
cursor.execute('select * from mytable where id=?', parameters)
Type inference also doesn't help universally, since objects can
easily implement both the sequence and mapping ABC.
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