[orm-devel] Python 2.3's datetime

[Werner F. Bruhin]

Diedrich,

Diedrich Vorberg wrote:

>Hi!
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>>   * Starting with Python 2.3, module authors can also use the object
>>     types defined in the standard datetime module for date/time
>>     processing. However, it should be noted that this does not
>>     expose a C API like mxDateTime does which means that integration
>>     with C based database modules is more difficult.
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>>I brought this up as I noted that kinterbasdb is now supporting this and 
>>it can also supports FixedPoint for numeric/decimal columns.
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>Ok, I can see that...
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>I'd like to stick to mxDateTime, though, because I'd like orm to
>remain compatible to Python 2.2. The reason behind this is Zope: Zope
>2.6 still uses 2.1 and it's only in the upcoming 2.7 release that
>they'll support Python 2.2.
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>We should consider the issue again when the other database drivers
>start switching away from mxDateTime.
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>If you'd like the Firebird adapter to use the internal type from
>Python 2.3 you can define a type/column pair in
>adapters.firebird.columns, but please put it in an if clause, so that
>it doesn't get defined for Python 2.2 users.
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>What do you think?
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I agree.  Will look into changing the Firebird adapter in more detail 
and get back to you - unlikely before October, but I am sure you won't 
mind that.

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>Diedrich
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