Re: Confused about install as sqlite2

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:14:53 -0600,
> [email protected] declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.db.pysqlite.user:
> 
>> Still, I found it confusing that one has a "2" and the other a "3".  That
>> suggests that the external package is somehow "older" than the core
>> package.  What was the rationale for that?
>>
> 	It may have originated back in the days of SQLite2 <G>... Or it is
> the second version of the PySQLite adapter, independent of the version
> of SQLite itself (notice how one has to invoke the dbapi2 package from
> pysqlite2 -- which implies that possible dbapi1 is still lurking in the
> base module). [...]

As I said before, the rationale for the pysqlite2 package name was to 
differentiate from the "sqlite" module name in pysqlite 0.x/1.x.

The dbapi2 module in there was a bit in anticipation of a future DB-API 
3 specification, but also to be able to provide an alternative API that 
would be better/simpler than the standard DB-API. This hasn't happened 
so far, though.

-- Gerhard