Dan:
You have a very good point. Perhaps we should put that on the wish list
for API version 3.
The .connection attribute of the cursor is optional. IMHO it should be
required.. I think most existing api packages implement it.
The it is suggested, but not required by the PEP, that the excepti
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Michael Bayer
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> On Apr 19, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Dan Lenski wrote:
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>> The problem I'm having is... how can I figure out what are the appropriate
>> type objects for this comparison if I *only* have access to the cursor
>> object?
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> Basically I'd quest
On Apr 21, 2013, at 9:39 PM, Daniel Lenski wrote:
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> I *could* pass around a handle to the DB module along with the cursor
> itself, as you've suggested, but that seems redundant and error-prone
> to me. To my mind, this is a small gap in the DBAPI design:
> (1) DBAPI does specify a set of m
Vernon D. Cole gmail.com> writes:
> Dan:
> You have a very good point. Perhaps we should put that on the wish list for
API version 3.
> The .connection attribute of the cursor is optional. IMHO it should be
required.. I think most existing api packages implement it.
> The it is suggested, b
Michael Bayer zzzcomputing.com> writes:
> On Apr 21, 2013, at 9:39 PM, Daniel Lenski gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> > I *could* pass around a handle to the DB module along with the cursor
> > itself, as you've suggested, but that seems redundant and error-prone
> > to me. To my mind, this is a sma
On Apr 22, 2013, at 12:44 PM, Dan Lenski wrote:
> Michael Bayer zzzcomputing.com> writes:
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>> On Apr 21, 2013, at 9:39 PM, Daniel Lenski gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>
>>> I *could* pass around a handle to the DB module along with the cursor
>>> itself, as you've suggested, but that seems redund
Michael Bayer zzzcomputing.com> writes:
> On Apr 22, 2013, at 12:44 PM, Dan Lenski gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I get your point about not crufting up DBAPI with a bunch of high-level
> > features that will need to be reimplemented for each module...
> >
> > But this seems to me precisely the kind o
One of those attributes needs to move anyway. In order to make the
paramstyle switchable, it needs to be an attribute of the connection, so
that a client who is supporting multiple connections to multiple engines
(like, for example the database connection server I am writing right now)
does not ha
