Re: [SQLObject] Decimal type support

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 20:09:53 +0300, Oleg Broytmann <ph...@ma...> wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 03:00:02PM -0200, Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
>>
>>>I really don't know what to do.
>>
>>   Wait until DB API 3 implements Decimal in drivers. To speed things up
>>start discussing DB API 3 in the db-sig, and send patches for your
>>driver.
>>   Yes, that's hard...
> 
> 
> I remember posting a comment about the state of the DB API on c.l.py a
> couple of months ago (soon after the famous AMK blog post on the std
> library), and being quickly flamed by some well know DB-SIG members.
> So that's *really* hard.

It won't be hard for the decimal type -- the decimal type is an issue of 
correctness.  It might be hard to make it actually *happen* given the 
development process for any particular driver, but everyone knows 
returning a Python decimal for a DB decimal column is the Right Thing. 
All you have to ask is, "how do I do it?" and if there's not a way, "how 
can we change the driver to allow me to do it?"

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