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I have packed 0.40pre2 for testing, and uploaded it for downloading.
This release is essentially the same as 0.40pre1 with a few changes in the setup script to support Sybase 15 on Windows ans 64-bit Unix/Linux platforms.
Please build, insall and test, so I can fix any problems before the 0.40 release, which if there are no problems reported, will be done in a few weeks.

This version corrects an "undefined symbol" bug at compilation of version 0.39pre1 for Sybase versions where CS_DATE_TYPE is not defined.

This is a pre-release for Sybase 0.39pre1 with the following major changes:

* Added type mapping as proposed in http://www.uniqsys.com/~carsten/typemap.html by Carsten Haese
* Handle engineer notation of numbers in numeric
* Added support for CS_DATE_TYPE
* Added support for python Decimal objects in databuf
* Possibility to use ct_cursor for some requests
* Refactoring - merged Fetchers, CTCursor and CmdCursor in Cursor
* Refactored _cancel_cmd
* Added a prepare method to Cursor
* Additional 'locale' argument to connect and Connection to set the locale of the connection thanks to patch by Harri Pasanen
* Better compliance with DBAPI: returns None in nextset when no more set
* Added conversion from string to int when assigning to a CS_INT_TYPE DataBuf

This release corrects a bug in databuf_alloc: Sybase reports the wrong maxlength for numeric type.

The release 0.38pre1 of the python-sybase module is available. It is a pre-release for Sybase 0.38.

The major changes are Bulkcopy support and various bug fixes.

The release 0.38pre1 of the python-sybase module is available. It is a pre-release for Sybase 0.38.

The major changes are that this release works with python 2.5, sybase 15 and 64bits clients. It can also use native python datetime types. The infamous bug "This routine cannot be called because another command structure has results pending." which appears in various cases has been corrected.

Dave Cole, who has maintained the python-sybase module until now, no longer has the time needed to maintain it. As a result the python-sybase project has been moved to SourceForge so as to allow more people to participate.

Sébastien Sablé is also joining the team as the project lead.

We thank Dave for all his work on the module over the years.