Re: API 3.0 limiting paramstyle to ['named', 'qmark'] is okay. ('format' is not desirable)
Michael Bayer <[email protected]>
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On May 17, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]> wrote: > > If that's too provocative I think the Python dbapi should mandate the > %s and %(name)s formats because they are the only ones to have well > defined syntax and escaping rule and are well known to every python > developer. I forgot also, not to mention that Python itself is moving away from "%" as a formatting operator, in favor of the newer .format() method which has yet *another* syntax: see pep 3101: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3101/ http://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#formatspec I love the format and pyformat styles a lot for Python programming but I feel like they cause a lot of confusion when they are additionally interpreted by a DBAPI. It runs you into various "double-escaping" types of situations. _______________________________________________ DB-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig