Re: Feature branches merged to master for 2.8 release

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:49:14AM +0000, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:

> There are always differences, in interfaces and in behaviour, between
> dbapi drivers. A private method, returning two objects which are
> different because they are very simply two database drivers, are not
> the place where to start trying to unify interfaces. What you do, if
> you want to deal with both drivers, is to write a wrapper unifying the
> interfaces. I would be ok to adapt other drivers choices, if I agreed
> with them, but I can't agree with an underscore method being
> documented as part of the API: that's internal stuff and totally not
> idiomatic Python.
> 
> My vote goes to have this method name without underscore, but I'll
> leave the final decision to Federico.

Apart from a wrapper class one can always monkey-patch

    my_dbapi_instance._get_native_connection = my_dbapi_instance.get_native_connection

at runtime.

Karsten
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