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From: Federico Di Gregorio <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Feature branches merged to master for 2.8 release
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 12:48:10 +0100
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On 10/29/2018 11:54 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:49:14AM +0000, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
> 
>> There are always differences, in interfaces and in behaviour, between
>> dbapi drivers. A private method, returning two objects which are
>> different because they are very simply two database drivers, are not
>> the place where to start trying to unify interfaces. What you do, if
>> you want to deal with both drivers, is to write a wrapper unifying the
>> interfaces. I would be ok to adapt other drivers choices, if I agreed
>> with them, but I can't agree with an underscore method being
>> documented as part of the API: that's internal stuff and totally not
>> idiomatic Python.
>>
>> My vote goes to have this method name without underscore, but I'll
>> leave the final decision to Federico.
> Apart from a wrapper class one can always monkey-patch
> 
> 	my_dbapi_instance._get_native_connection = my_dbapi_instance.get_native_connection
> 
> at runtime.

Right.

federico

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