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From: "Joseph L. Casale" <jcasale@activenetwerx.com>
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Subject: RE: Best practice for connections and cursors
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>Speaking to the OP:  personally, I don't like the approach of putting data=
 access methods at the module level to >begin with.  I'd rather use a class=
.  Just because it makes sense to have a singleton connection now doesn't m=
ean it >will always make sense as your application grows.
>In fact, the conflict you describe where one cursor is interfering with an=
other cursor suggests that you may >already be at the point of needing mult=
iple connections.  The operation that is creating a temp table and messing =
>things up should ideally be pulling an unused connection from a pool, so a=
s to avoid potentially contaminating a >connection that may already be in u=
se elsewhere in the code.

Appreciate the opinion, it would clean it up to go this route so I will. It=
 turns out
the long delay was only a result of running the code through PyCharms debug=
ger.

Thanks for the suggestion,
jlc