[Python-sybase-misc] Using new sybase features from python-sybase

[Cserna, Z. <Zso...@Mo...>]

Hi all,

We build python-sybase from source and would like to use the new features of sybase including kerberos authentication and large data fields (char, varchar sized over than 255 chars). As far as I know these features have been added to sybase openclient 12.5 and above, but not working for us with the original python-sybase source code.

Is it working for you with the original source? I mean the kerberos authentication and the large data fields.

It seemed to me that the extension contains some wired-in values, especially for ct_init and ct_alloc - both receive the version to be "emulated" as the first argument. Specifying the contstant CS_VERSION_100 (which I think means 10.0) to them as python-sybase does  limits the package's functionality to 10.0 - disabling the new features coming with 12.5 or 15.0.

I've modified these values to the values I needed and it's working for me, but these are still wired-in values, and I'm not entirely sure that that's the official solution for that.

Are there any plans in the future to auto-detect the version of the openclient library and specify the highest version possible to ct_alloc and ct_init in python-sybase?

Thanks,
Zsolt

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