WHAT IS IT: The Sybase module provides a Python interface to the Sybase relational database system. It supports all of the Python Database API, version 2.0 with extensions.
The module is available here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/python-sybase/python-sybase-0.38pre2.tar.gz The module home page is here: http://python-sybase.sourceforge.net/ CHANGES SINCE 0.38pre1: * Add structured error information to Sybase.DatabaseError thanks to patch provided by Gregory Bond (close tracker 1631902) * Resurrected Sybase.Bulkcopy functionality thanks to patch provided by Gregory Bond (close tracker 1632916) * Corrected AttributeError when locking is off (close tracker 1637942 reported by Jim Nusbaum) * Corrected incorrect type mx.DateTime.DateTime returned by Sybase.Date() in "mx" datetime mode. This type is not supported by DataBuf. * Corrected crash on a BLK object when debug is enabled (close tracker 1630941 reported by Gregory Bond) * rowcount is now propagated to Cursor (corrects tracker 1621003) * Added support for python datetime type in DataBuf and as parameter of Cursor.execute() * Corrected Date, Time and Timestamp functions when using mx.DateTime or native python datetime types * Corrected DATETIME as cursor.description still returns native Sybase datetime types * Corrected blk_describe always returns (status, None) thanks to patch by Phil Porter * Patch to handle CS_LONG type based on patch by Paul Rensing MAJOR CHANGES SINCE 0.37: * This release works with python 2.5 * It also works with sybase 15 * It works with 64bits clients * It can be configured to return native python datetime objects * The bug "This routine cannot be called because another command structure has results pending." which appears in various cases has been corrected * It includes a unitary test suite based on the dbapi2.0 compliance test suite -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
