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[Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Tue Mar 28 21:33:34 CEST 2006 
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Gerhard Häring wrote:
> 
>> I know that pushing new things into Python 2.5 should happen soon, if at
>> all. So *if* pysqlite should go into Python, I propose that I release
>> pysqlite 2.2.0 and we integrate that into the Python alpha release.
> 
> +1 !
> 
>> If this is going to happen, I want it to happen under a different
>> package name than "pysqlite2" and it's probably a good idea to skip
>> "sqlite" too, because there are still users of the SQLite 1.x API (*)
>> and this is the package name of that API. OTOH, "sqlite" would be the
>> natural name if it ends up in Python. Perhaps "sqlitedb" ...
> 
> db.sqlite3 ?

That would make sense if inclusion of more database-related modules was
planned.

Whatever name is chosen: please no "from sqlite3 import dbapi2 as sqlite"!

Georg
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