Thanks Gabriel, but when I said "round trip" I really did mean: convert all the way to string and all the way back again, so your kind advice is not all that helpful. I need string to get to a non-Python object or a Web page.
DY "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On 15 dic, 07:44, "dyork" <reverse [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> When getting data from a database using the dbapi and an SQL query, how >> do >> you in general round trip the data? Especially date-time? >> >> An SQL datetime column translates nicely into a Python datetime >> (surprise), >> which then translates into a string like '2005-08-03 07:32:48'. No >> problem >> with that -- all works quite nicely, until you try to put data back the >> other way. > > Dont convert to string and keep the datetime object. > > -- > Gabriel Genellina > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
