[Twisted-Python] adbapi and pymssql

[Dave Peticolas]

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 09:09 +0200, Alessandro Praduroux wrote:
> The problem as I recall was related to the fact that a commit() not coupled 
> with a begin() threw an exception, while all other DBAPI implementations were 
> resilient to this kind of problem. So I use a slightly modified version of 
> Sybase (that I'll send to you separately to avoid traffic on the list, if 
> anyone else is interested I'll post it here too, I lost the original patch 
> but I have the full package and I'm too lazy to recreate the patch).
> 
> A little disclaimer: freetds and thus Sybase.py do not yet implement query 
> parameters, if you try using them you will get an error until the freetds 
> people figure out how to implement this. I don't know if the mssql module 
> implement a workaround for this, Sybase.py doesn't (but it should be fairly 
> easy to do it in a compatible way).

As far as I can tell, begin() isn't actually a part of the DBAPI
standard: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0249.html

That would explain why most DBAPI implementations do not require it :)

dave