[ANN] istring 1.0.1 released; announce list created

[Paul Boddie]

Gerhard Häring <gerhard at bigfoot.de> wrote in message news:<slrna8c4vi.181.gerhard at lilith.my-fqdn.de>...
> 
> There's a reason for cursor.execute(query_string, parameters) being in
> the DB-API. Only the DB module can know how to put the parameters
> there correctly with quoting and all.

Well, that remark should, in a just world, kill the almost inevitable
thread about adding SQL quoting to some part of the standard library.
Unfortunately, dubious SQL practices will probably persist until SQL
is just a memory.

Paul