On 7/11/07, Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 7/11/07, Jose Galvez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Dear Mike,
> > I've read the doc string in the new sacontext and was just wondering why for
> > add_engine_from_config do you have to explicitly pass None for the default
> > connection? it would make more sense to pass 'default' or better yet nothing
> > all all and assume the default engine. I understand that you are moving
> > away from the the implicit to the explicit which is great, I just thought
> > passing None to mean default is awkward when you could just as easily added
> > None as the default in the method def. (the same could be said about
> > add_engine)
>
> It is awkward but Python has no other built-in value for "default".
> Using a string means people may spell it differently, and the
> .metadata and .engine properties require a fixed value. Making it
> optional means the second positional argument would sometimes move to
> the first (like Pylons render_response("/template.html") vs
> render_response("mako", "/template.html"), and I'm absolutely opposed
> to that.
I released 0.3.1 which accepts "default", sacontext.DEFAULT, or None
interchangeably to refer to the default engine.
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Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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