Roundtrip SQL data especially datetime

[John Machin]

dyork wrote:
> "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.
>

Simple fact: mySQLdb is not yet available for Python 2.5.
Nobody has said (or even hinted) that "the language doesn't like it."