Re: [python-win32] survey question: should data from database columns of type adGUID be returned as instances of class uuid?

2013-04-15 Thread Roger Upole
I think the uuid module was introduced in python 2.5, might want to bear that in mind. Roger Vernon D. Cole vernondc...@gmail.com wrote in message news:CAH-ZgAeC9D+=1uybyjrztdob6bedjs8ayehrmqp-iyfwonm...@mail.gmail.com... I am doing a major update to adodbapi, and have an ideal opportunity

Re: [python-win32] survey question: should data from database columns of type adGUID be returned as instances of class uuid?

2013-04-15 Thread Vernon D. Cole
I thought Mark approved dropping 2.4. Did I misunderstand? -- Vernon On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Roger Upole rup...@hotmail.com wrote: I think the uuid module was introduced in python 2.5, might want to bear that in mind. Roger Vernon D. Cole vernondc...@gmail.com wrote in

Re: [python-win32] survey question: should data from database columns of type adGUID be returned as instances of class uuid?

2013-04-15 Thread Roger Upole
Dropping 2.4 was mentioned, but only in the context if it used vc6. (It's build with VC7.) Roger Vernon D. Cole vernondc...@gmail.com wrote in message news:CAH-ZgAdRVmyO3EtwrYzgug_jvN1K57J=veqhkg0y+hs8kjv...@mail.gmail.com... I thought Mark approved dropping 2.4. Did I misunderstand? --

Re: [python-win32] survey question: should data from database columns of type adGUID be returned as instances of class uuid?

2013-04-15 Thread Mark Hammond
FWIW, the most recent build of pywin32 has had less 2.4 downloads (15) than 2.3 (23), so dropping 2.4 can certainly be done as soon as there is some concrete advantage. [hrm - but those download figures are suspect - I'm guessing sourceforge has recently reset them - but I think 2.4 is as

Re: [python-win32] survey question: should data from database columns of type adGUID be returned as instances of class uuid?

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Manfre
Aside from the well known benefits of dropping a python version that is two versions behind the security patches only release, cleaner code with the try..except..finally and with changes, and also the ability of Vernon to use the uuid object in adodbapi. Regards, Michael Manfre On Mon, Apr 15,

[python-win32] survey question: should data from database columns of type adGUID be returned as instances of class uuid?

2013-04-14 Thread Vernon D. Cole
I am doing a major update to adodbapi, and have an ideal opportunity to add a new feature ... but I want to see whether it is a desirable feature... When reading data from database columns of decimal or date-time data, I return them to the user as Python decimal.decimal or datetime.datetime

Re: [python-win32] survey question: should data from database columns of type adGUID be returned as instances of class uuid?

2013-04-14 Thread Aahz
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013, Vernon D. Cole wrote: I am doing a major update to adodbapi, and have an ideal opportunity to add a new feature ... but I want to see whether it is a desirable feature... When reading data from database columns of decimal or date-time data, I return them to the user as