Is it just me, or is Sqlite3 goofy?

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    >> I think your whole experience is based on it.

    >> But shouldn't a significant feature like that be explained in the
    >> Python manuals? Why should I go dig up Sqlite FAQs to learn what
    >> should have been in the manuals?

I don't know, but I will take a stab at a plausible explanation.  First,
sqlite support has only been in Python for a month or three.  Its first
official unveiling will be when 2.5 is released.  Second, it's common when
wrapping functionality into Python to rely on the documentation for the
thing being wrapped.  The thinner the wrapper, the more you tend to rely on
the underlying documentation.  Also, the more functionally rich the thing
you've wrapped, the more you rely on the underlying documentation.  I
wouldn't be at all surprised if the pysqlite author operated under that
assumption.  That the Python developers didn't pick up on the issue is not
surprising.  I'm not sure how many of them are (py)sqlite users, probably
relatively few.

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