Re: On the subject of patches

>I've done a small patch to use the built-in datetime type for python 
>2.x, x >= 3, which I find useful.  (I'm only reading datetime 
>objects, not writing them, not sure if the sybase module would 
>support writing them anyway, except as strings?)

I don't imagine the situation would be any different to the mx.DateTime
types - how are they written (I've had a quick look at the source, and
there doesn't appear to be any special support, so I presume you convert
them to strings first)?

>I've actually been using the Sybase module against Sybase 12.0 and 
>12.5.x databases, on linux, windows, Solaris, hpux 11.11 (pa-risc).   
>Not very heavily and not all of it, but still a fair amount.
>
>I've noticed that the code is not 64 bit clean, on Mandriva 2006 
>64 bit it does not compile/work correctly.  Solaris 64 bit 
>is the same or similar, does not work  Is there a patch for that, or 
>should I roll my sleeves?

If you have experience doing that sort of thing, any patches you supply
would be valuable. 

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