Re: "Naked" typecast functions?

On 21/04/2010 22:58, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>> psycopg2.NUMBER("12.34", None)
>> > 
>> > note that the second argument ought to be a cursor but you can safely
>> > pass None to almost all the typecasters except for the UNICODE one
>> > because it needs some information about the encoding of the string and
>> > will try to get it from cursor.connection.
> Should UNICODE() then get a third, optional, keyword argument using
> which you can, if you want to, pass in an encoding ? In case you don't
> and it being the default None psycopg2 will still try getting it from
> cursor.connection:

I don't think so. While you _can_ use typecast objects there is no
reason to encourage using them outside of the correct environment, i.e.,
with a cursor/connection available.

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