Roundtrip SQL data especially datetime

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

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.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch