[DB-SIG] paramstyles, again (and now voting)

[Christoph Zwerschke]

Carl Karsten schrieb:
>   >>> numeric -1
>   >>> format -5
>   >>> pyformat -2
> 
> To me that reads "remove them."  0 would have been "tolerate them."

It seems the "format" and "pyformat" syntax will be abandoned in Python 
3.0 anyway (in favor of yet another syntax) so that would be another 
reason to get rid of them in DB API v3 as well.

see http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3101/
and http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=208549
under "Printing and Formatting"

-- Christoph