Re: [Tutor] Database topic now fixed

2006-05-15 Thread Alan Gauld
>Does that mean you will soon fix the tutor.tgz :-) > Thanks for all the hard work you put into this. I updated the PDF. zip and tgz files at the same time I uploaded the fixed database topic, but before I made the additional fixes Bob suggested Alan G.

[Tutor] Database topic now fixed

2006-05-14 Thread S W Collier
Alan, Does that mean you will soon fix the tutor.tgz :-) Thanks for all the hard work you put into this. Stan. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Database topic now fixed

2006-05-13 Thread Alan Gauld
> Some observations: These have now all been addressed as previously discussed. I've also added a section at the end covering the use of execute() to insert parameters rather than relying on format strings since the latter can be a security risk. Hopefully its now complete! :-) Alan Gauld Autho

Re: [Tutor] Database topic now fixed

2006-05-13 Thread Alan Gauld
Thanks Bob, Feedback is always appreciated, its how the tutor improves. > 1 - people familiar with other databases might be puzzled by the > lack of column datatypes. I'd mention that sqlite allows but does > not require types at the first introduction of CREATE TABLE,. Fair point, although by

Re: [Tutor] Database topic now fixed

2006-05-13 Thread Bob Gailer
Alan Gauld wrote: > The mistakes in my databae topic have now been rectified. > I have no idea how I managed to post the file without testing > that section of code. And unfortunately it's one of the areas > where SqlLite SQL syntax varies from the Oracle syntax that > I'm most familiar with. Bu

[Tutor] Database topic now fixed

2006-05-13 Thread Alan Gauld
The mistakes in my databae topic have now been rectified. I have no idea how I managed to post the file without testing that section of code. And unfortunately it's one of the areas where SqlLite SQL syntax varies from the Oracle syntax that I'm most familiar with. But that's only a partial excu