Roundtrip SQL data especially datetime

[John Machin]

Carsten Haese wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 20:48 +0000, John Nagle wrote:
> >      The SourceForge page
> >
> >        http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22307
> >
> > says
> >
> > "MySQL versions 3.23-5.0; and Python versions 2.3-2.4 are supported."
> >
> > Last release was April, 2006.  There's no binary for Python 2.5 yet.
> > [...]
> >   So users should hold off from using Python 2.5 in production
> > database applications.
>
> This may come as a shock to you, but MySQL is not the only database
> engine on the planet. Your recommendation may apply to MySQL, but it is
> not true for all databases in general. I can name at least two examples
> (Informix and Oracle) of database engines that are supported under
> Python 2.5, and if I were less lazy I could probably find more.

Not sure if sqlite qualifies as an "engine", but it works just fine
with Python 2.5. Heck, it's even supplied in the standard python.org
distribution, Windows DLL and all and all ...