Re: Context manager support for cursors

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:37 AM, Federico Di Gregorio <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/21/2018 01:31 AM, Gerald Venzl wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was wondering whether there has been any particular reason that the
>> specification of the Cursor object doesn’t implement a context manager to
>> enable for example the “with” statement?
>> Being able to use the “with” statement for database cursors, just like
>> other external resources like files, etc., I think makes a lot of sense:
>>
>> with conn.cursor()as c:
>>      c.execute("SELECT 'test' from dual")
>>      result = c.fetchall()
>>      print(result)
>
>
> It does (make sense). The explanation is that context managers did not exist
> when the PEP was written. An update is long overdue, IMHO.

Indeed. contextlib.closing
(https://docs.python.org/2/library/contextlib.html#contextlib.closing)
can be used to emulate the same behavior, but it really ought to be
part of the DBAPI specification.

Python Database API Specification v3.0, anyone…? :-P

Dan
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