Re: API 3.0 limiting paramstyle to ['named', 'qmark'] is okay. ('format' is not desirable)

Michael Bayer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.db
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On May 17, 2013, at 6:42 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 17.05.2013 12:09, Vernon D. Cole wrote:
>> I short time ago I commented to this forum that the 'format' paramstyle was
>> important to keep, because of widespread use, citing django as an example.
>> 
>> I have taken the question to the django developers group and received a
>> response that they don't really like the 'format' paramstyle and would be
>> happy to have a reason to change.
>> 
>> I therefor rescind my previous objection.
> 
> psychopg2 uses the 'format' paramstyle and while I agree that
> it has issues, I think the existing code base using
> it is large enough that we cannot easily remove that
> paramstyle :-(
> 
> I'd love to hear what Daniele thinks about this.

there's no reason a DBAPI can't keep a particular paramstyle, we just want to make it so that *all* DBAPIs definitely support "named" and "qmark".  The rest are just optional.




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