Roundtrip SQL data especially datetime

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> 
> Most values tend to work, but only because the SQL string representation 
> happens to be the same as the Python representation. That may not apply to 
> some float values, bool, perhaps others. I had hoped the tools would have 
> solved those problems so I don't have to. In typed languages (Java, C#) 
> those things tend to just work.

Not true. There might be frameworks that aid this process - as there are 
for python (e.g. TurboGears validators), but especially when it comes to 
dates, even the larger ones like Struts for Java pretty much suck.

Diez