[DB-SIG] Some obscurity with paramstyle

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Michael Bayer wrote:
> 
> On Jul 18, 2011, at 3:33 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>>
>> For the next version, we're likely going to reduce the number
>> of allowed formats to just two (%s and ?, IIRC), since having
>> lots of different formats has resulted in much confusion.
> 
> Why have both %s and ? (both positional?)  If there is to only be positional, what purpose is served by having two choices for the format ?

It's well possible that I've misremembered the ones we picked
in a discussion some time ago. Could well have been named and
qmark.

> Also is it accurate that named parameters, support for dictionaries passed to execute(), will be dropped ?   This leads things back in the "more difficult to use" direction IMHO.

Depends on which parameter types we choose. Note that I don't think
we'll actually drop the support, just require support for two types
and leave the others optionally supported as well.

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