Sybase module for Python project provides a Python interface to the Sybase relational database system. The Sybase package supports all of the Python Database API, version 2.0 with extensions.
What's New in This Release:
MAJOR CHANGES SINCE 0.38:
· 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
BUGS CORRECTED SINCE 0.39pre1:
· Corrected "undefined symbol" date_datafmt for Sybase versions where CS_DATE_TYPE is not defined (as reported by Alexey Morsov)
BUGS CORRECTED SINCE 0.38:
· Corrected documentation about CS_CONTEXT Objects thanks to bug report by Derek Harland (close tracker 1748109)
· Corrected bug in close() if connection killed from outside thanks to patch by Derek Harland (close tracker 1746220)
· Corrected bug if inherit from Sybase.Connection thanks to patch by Derek Harland (close tracker 1719789)
· Optimization in fetchall - using fetchmany instead of fetchone to avoid locking time penalty, thanks to patch by Derek Harland (close tracker 1746908)
· Corrections to compile with bcp-support against freetds thanks to patch by Klaus-Martin Hansche (close tracker 1724088)
· Corrected documentation to compile with FreeTDS and Threads thanks to Derek Harland (close tracker 1709043)
· Corrected bug in databuf_alloc: Sybase reports the wrong maxlength for numeric type - verified with Sybase 12.5 - thanks to patch provided by Phil Porter
· Better detection of Sybase libraries
· the C API to datetime only exists since python 2.4 - disable datetime with previous versions
· Corrected python long handling (using CS_NUMERIC instead of CS_LONG which is unspecified)
· Corrected various compilation warnings (some linked to python 2.5)
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