Roundtrip SQL data especially datetime

[Fredrik Lundh]

dyork wrote:

> 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.

if you think that Python isn't typed, you've completely missed how 
things work.  your problem is that you're removing every trace of the 
type information by casting everything to strings, not that Python 
itself (nor the database adapters) cannot handle typed data.

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