>> I think your whole experience is based on it. >> But shouldn't a significant feature like that be explained in the >> Python manuals? Why should I go dig up Sqlite FAQs to learn what >> should have been in the manuals?
I don't know, but I will take a stab at a plausible explanation. First, sqlite support has only been in Python for a month or three. Its first official unveiling will be when 2.5 is released. Second, it's common when wrapping functionality into Python to rely on the documentation for the thing being wrapped. The thinner the wrapper, the more you tend to rely on the underlying documentation. Also, the more functionally rich the thing you've wrapped, the more you rely on the underlying documentation. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the pysqlite author operated under that assumption. That the Python developers didn't pick up on the issue is not surprising. I'm not sure how many of them are (py)sqlite users, probably relatively few. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list