Roundtrip SQL data especially datetime

[dyork]

"Carsten Haese" <carsten at uniqsys.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1699.1166304628.32031.python-list at python.org...
> 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.

Of course, no question about it.

However, the database is currently in MySQL and it's convenient to keep 
working with it, given the other apps and other tools I'm using.

This would be the first time I've been told: don't use that database, the 
language doesn't like it.

DY