pysqlite 2.3.4 released ======================= I'm pleased to announce the availability of pysqlite 2.3.4. This is a bugfix release.
Go to http://pysqlite.org/ for downloads, online documentation and reporting bugs. What is pysqlite? pysqlite is a DB-API 2.0-compliant database interface for SQLite. SQLite is a relational database management system contained in a relatively small C library. It is a public domain project created by D. Richard Hipp. Unlike the usual client-server paradigm, the SQLite engine is not a standalone process with which the program communicates, but is linked in and thus becomes an integral part of the program. The library implements most of SQL-92 standard, including transactions, triggers and most of complex queries. pysqlite makes this powerful embedded SQL engine available to Python programmers. It stays compatible with the Python database API specification 2.0 as much as possible, but also exposes most of SQLite's native API, so that it is for example possible to create user-defined SQL functions and aggregates in Python. If you need a relational database for your applications, or even small tools or helper scripts, pysqlite is often a good fit. It's easy to use, easy to deploy, and does not depend on any other Python libraries or platform libraries, except SQLite. SQLite itself is ported to most platforms you'd ever care about. It's often a good alternative to MySQL, the Microsoft JET engine or the MSDE, without having any of their license and deployment issues. pysqlite can be downloaded from http://pysqlite.org/ - Sources and Windows binaries for Python 2.5, 2.4 and Python 2.3 are available. ======= CHANGES ======= - pysqlite is now easy_install-able. - Under some circumstances it's was not possible to close the connection object. This happened if you still had cursor objects around with statements that were no longer in the cached statements pool. This was fixed by finalizing all statements that were created from the connection instead of only those that are still found in the connection pool. - SQLite often does not report useful error messages when the stepped-on statement was not reset first. Now we make sure that's always the case. - From Python core version: Patch by Tim Delany (missing DECREF). SF #1731330. - Merged missing corrections for sample code from Python core version. - Allow the size parameter for fetchmany() for better DB-API compliance. - Allow a static build of pysqlite using the SQLite amalgamation. Copy sqlite3.c and sqlite3.h into the pysqlite directory, then use $ python extended_setup.py build_static to build pysqlite. setuptools must be installed in order to use the extended_setup.py script. - Applied patch from #184. This defers the implicit BEGINs/COMMITs and thus improves concurrency. - Print a warning if somebody tries to run the pysqlite test suite from the pysqlite root directory and exit. In earlier versions, the user would get a hard to understand error message about a missing extension module instead. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
