Roundtrip SQL data especially datetime

[GHUM]

>     One side effect of this being third party code is that hosting
> services may not have it available, even when they have both Python
> and MySQL up.  This is never a problem with Perl or PHP, so that's
> a negative for Python.

I for one think it is a good thing to not have MySQL adapters
integrated into Python core. Neither the philopsophie, nor the licence
of the two products fit together.

But maybe that's because I am a PostgreSQL zealot - and PostgreSQL and
Python is really a match made in heaven.

Harald