> I'm fairly sure your database queries don't actually give you strings or
> dicts, right? You probably get lists (or iterators) of tuples and
> somewhere you convert them to the arguments you are feeding to
> run_queries().
Ah, no, those queries are enshrined within the middleware as Python stri
> It occurs to me that you could simplify things if you converted those
> plain query strings to dicts:
>
> 'SELECT 1' --> {'SQL': 'SELECT 1'}
Ha, indeed. There's likely not that many "simple string SQL queries"
in that codebase so I shall take it as an opportunity to refactor them.
So, at least
