[Python-Dev] SQLite module for Python 2.5

Gerhard Haering gh at ghaering.de
Thu Oct 21 10:50:29 CEST 2004


On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:08:32PM -0300, Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
> [...] If the sqlite library supports a bigger and
> richer API _as part of the standard Python library_, then everyone
> else (Python's end users and developers) will naturally expect that
> all other rdbms will support the same API.

I don't believe people are so stupid. We should then clearly mark
DB-API methods in the documentation, and the rest as nonstandard
extensions. If you think it is a real problem, the nonstandard methods
can even get a leading underscore.

-- Gerhard
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