DB-API format string conventions

[Skip Montanaro]

    Craig> IMO it'd also be very nice to support **kw calling style, ie to
    Craig> make:

    Craig> cursor.execute("SELECT somerow FROM table WHERE otherrow = %(name)s",
    Craig>                {'name': 'fred'})

    Craig> equivalent to:

    Craig> cursor.execute("SELECT somerow FROM table WHERE otherrow = %(name)s",
    Craig>                name = 'fred')

    Craig> frankly, I simply think it's a nicer and more readable calling
    Craig> style when one is passing a list of parameters directly to
    Craig> .execute() rather than passing an existing dict. 

In my code I most often use locals() to map the local namespace into a
dictionary:

    cursor.execute("SELECT somerow FROM table WHERE otherrow = %(name)s",
                   locals())

That works as long as there's a local variable named "name" in the local
namespace.

    Craig> So ... anybody for a DB-API 2.1 with mandatory pyformat support
    Craig> and a tuple dbmodule.paramstyles for supported styles?

The sybase-python module supports Sybase's "@" thingie in a straightforward
way:

    cursor.execute("SELECT somerow FROM table WHERE otherrow = @name",
                   {"@name": "fred"})

This works for both selects as well as for the input and output parameters
of stored procedures (cursor.callproc).

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