Roundtrip SQL data especially datetime

[John Nagle]

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> In <B0Xgh.31487$wP1.9658 at newssvr14.news.prodigy.net>, John Nagle wrote:
> 
>>John Machin wrote:
>>
>>>John Nagle wrote:
>>>
>>>>dyork wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>"John Machin" <sjmachin at lexicon.net> wrote in message
>>>>>news:1166211949.065578.292600 at f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>If you have, as you should, Python 2.5, you can use this:
>>>>
>>>>   Actually, MySQLdb isn't released for Python 2.5 yet
>>>
>>>
>>>Actually, that's interesting information [why should it take so long?],
>>>but the OP didn't actually say what brand of database he was actually
>>>using :-)
>>
>>    True.
>>
>>    Why should it take so long?  The Python people don't support the
>>MySQL interface, and the MySQL people don't support the Python interface.
>>There's one guy on Sourceforge doing the MySQLdb glue code.  And he's busy.
> 
> 
> AFAIK there's no MySQLdb module for Python 2.5 on *Windows* yet, because
> the author of the module doesn't use Windows anymore and he don't want to
> maintain a binary he can't test.

     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.

    See the help discussions for the project.  Apparently you can build
it for Python 2.5 from the SVN repository and it can be made to work,
but just building it may not work on your platform.  Some edits
may be required.  Problems have been reported with the Windows version
and the 64-bit Linux version.

    These are all normal development issues.  But they're not fully resolved
yet.  So users should hold off from using Python 2.5 in production
database applications.

    				John Nagle