Greg Ewing writes: > Data retrieved from a database is often passed to other code > that has nothing to do with databases, and data received from > other code is inserted into databases. Somewhere in between > someone is going to have to be careful to translate back and > forth between Nones and Nulls.
Sure. The suggestion is to assign responsibility for such careful translation to implementers of the DB API. > This is a recipe for chaos. If it is, then chaos is already upon us because you can't be careful even if you want to. I don't know if fixing it is worth the work and confusion involved in the fixing process, but fixing it will conserve (and maybe reduce) chaos, not create it. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com