[DB-SIG] cx_Oracle 2.5

[Tom Jenkins]

On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 12:25, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
> 
> Anthony Tuininga wrote:
> > 
> > -------------------------------- QUOTE ---------------------------------
> >  Prepare and execute a database operation (query or command). Parameters
> > may be provided as sequence or mapping and will be bound to variables in
> > the operation. Variables are specified in a database-specific notation
> > (see the module's paramstyle attribute for details). [5]
> > -------------------------------- QUOTE ---------------------------------
> 
> Ah sorry, I forgot about that addition. The trick was that
> __getitem__ is used for finding the parameters in the data
> object.
> 
> Strikes me as rather uncommon, though.
>

Actually this is our most common way to send parameters.  i'd estimate
that around 85% of our execute calls use mappings to hold the
parameters.  it just seems to fit really well into how we work.
 
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