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 11:36 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 17.05.2013 17:10, Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
>> Am 17.05.2013 17:01, schrieb Vernon D. Cole:
>>> What other options should be considered?
>> 
>> Another option would be to get rid of the parameter completely, and silently accept both styles,
>> whatever is used in the sql command passed to the execute method.
> 
> This would violate explicit is better than implicit, and it also
> creates problems with raising proper errors, e.g. passing a
> dictionary of parameters to a SQL command which uses a mix
> of qmark and named style parameter markers.
> 
> We do need to keep this explicit.


IMHO it is explicit, whether you say:

cursor.execute(stmt, { < dictionary>} )

vs. 

cursor.execute(stmt, [ <list>] )

the type of parameters passed indicates the style of params to search for.   It's explicit via type inference.    if a dictionary is passed, "?" symbols are left alone.  If a list is passed, ":param" symbols are left alone.  If neither is passed, then neither ? nor :param are searched for.




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