On Feb 5, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> For people who use Python a lot, could I have a list of the deficiencies
> in DBAPI? I've got my horse and lance ready.
>
> Given that SQLAlchemy isn't for everyone, of course ... it couldn't be,
> or Django would use it, no?
Here are some to start with:
- paramstyle- No direct support of prepared statements [they *tried* to compensate for this with "cached statements",
butit's inadequate]- Too many *optional* extensions (Cursor Method .__iter__() being rather notable)
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/