Python and Databases

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Gerhard Häring wrote:
> While the DB-API defines certain 
> interfaces, it also gives some choices to module implementors. One issue 
> is that there are several possible paramstyles (format, pyformat, qmark, 
> named).

This is my biggest gripe with the DB-API. It seems totally
insane to me -- what's the use of having a so-called "standard"
API in which something so fundamental is not standardised?
It defeats much of the purpose.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg