On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 19:13:11 -0400 Philip Semanchuk <phi...@semanchuk.com> wrote: > > On Oct 2, 2010, at 6:58 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > > > On 10/02/10 17:06, Seebs wrote: > >> On 2010-10-02, Ravi<ra.ravi....@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> The documentation of the sqlite module at > >>> http://docs.python.org/library/sqlite3.html says: > >> > >>> "...allows accessing the database using a nonstandard > >>> variant of the SQL..." > >> > >> I would agree that the word "nonstandard" seems to be a little > >> strong and discouraging. sqlite is a source of joy, a small > >> bright point of decent and functional software in a world full > >> of misbehaving crap. While it does omit a few bits of SQL > >> functionality, I'd call it perhaps a "slightly incomplete > >> implementation" rather than a "nonstandard variant". > > > > In my experience, it might be better phrased as "non-standard (but more > > adherent to standards than Microsoft SQL-Server or MySQL) variant of SQL". > > :-) > > > > I mean really...does *any* RDBMS actually adhere to ANSI SQL? > > That's what I was thinking. Most of them achieve 90 - 98% and implement their > own extra 10% of non-standard extensions. One just has to hope that the bits > one needs are not in the missing 2-10%. > > I agree with the OP that the Python doc description of SQLite, while > factually correct, seems a bit severe.
You can open an issue at http://bugs.python.org Regards Antoine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
