Re: [DB-SIG] Fetch_raw

2007-05-02 Thread Michael Bayer
On May 2, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Art Protin wrote: > I am considering yet another extension to my driver. I especially > like the way that the methods cursor.fetch...() return lists of > objects > of the right type and the user of the API (the application) does not > need separate methods, one

Re: [DB-SIG] Fetch_raw

2007-05-02 Thread Carsten Haese
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 08:47 -0400, Art Protin wrote: > [...]I find that there is > some merit in getting the data, any of the data, as strings, which just > happens to be the format that our database uses to pass them. > Thus, there are two aspects where you could now influence my > implementation:

Re: [DB-SIG] Fetch_raw

2007-05-02 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2007-05-02 14:47, Art Protin wrote: > Dear folks, > I am considering yet another extension to my driver. I especially > like the way that the methods cursor.fetch...() return lists of objects > of the right type and the user of the API (the application) does not > need separate methods, one

[DB-SIG] Fetch_raw

2007-05-02 Thread Art Protin
Dear folks, I am considering yet another extension to my driver. I especially like the way that the methods cursor.fetch...() return lists of objects of the right type and the user of the API (the application) does not need separate methods, one for each type, to fetch individual columns. Howe