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Re: Best practice for connections and cursors

From Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject Re: Best practice for connections and cursors
Date 2013-08-01 20:49 -0400
Organization IISS Elusive Unicorn
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On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 15:05:08 +0000, "Joseph L. Casale"
<jcasale@activenetwerx.com> declaimed the following:

>
>As the module opens a connection, wherever I import it I call a commit against
>the connection after invoking any methods that insert or change data.
>

	You probably should NOT be opening connections /during/ the import
operation... For one thing, if it is a module level connection, multiple
imports are replacing earlier connections with their fresh one.

	That is -- do NOT do:

-=-=-=-=- (imported module)
...

theCon = db.connection(database)
...
-=-=-=-=-

	Instead, use something like

-=-=-=-=-
...
def initialize():
	global theCon
	theCon = db.connection(database)
...
-=-=-=-=-

and have only one importer invoke

	theModule.initialize()

which should take place after all imports have been resolved.
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	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
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Re: Best practice for connections and cursors Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-08-01 20:49 -0400

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