> I am backing out this patch. Please resubmit with this corrected. Thanks.

>
> I am running Python 1.5.

Therein lies the problem... :)

Since it appears you have the requirement of supporting old python
versions, attached is just the pgdb.py part of the patch (with a fix for
DateTime handling). It has the same functionality but certainly won't be
quite as fast. Given the absence of _PyString_Join in python1.5, it's a
pain to get the C variants working for all versions. The pgdb.py patch
does leaves the hooks in, should someone wish to do the optimization at a
later point.

Elliot Lee

src/interfaces/python/pgdb.py

@@ -260,32 +260,40 @@ class pgdbCursor:
 		pass
 
 
-def _quote(x):
-	if type(x) == types.StringType:
-		x = "'" + string.replace(
-				string.replace(str(x), '\\', '\\\\'), "'", "''") + "'"
-
-	elif type(x) in (types.IntType, types.LongType, types.FloatType):
-		pass
-	elif x is None:
-		x = 'NULL'
-	elif hasattr(x, '__pg_repr__'):
-		x = x.__pg_repr__()
-	else:
-		raise InterfaceError, 'do not know how to handle type %s' % type(x)
-
-	return x
-
-def _quoteparams(s, params):
-	if hasattr(params, 'has_key'):
-		x = {}
-		for k, v in params.items():
-			x[k] = _quote(v)
-		params = x
-	else:
-		params = tuple(map(_quote, params))
-
-	return s % params
+try:
+  _quote = _pg.quote_fast
+  _quoteparams = _pg.quoteparams_fast
+except (NameError, AttributeError):
+  def _quote(x):
+	  if type(x) == DateTime.DateTimeType:
+		x = str(x)
+	  if type(x) == types.StringType:
+		  x = "'" + string.replace(
+				  string.replace(str(x), '\\', '\\\\'), "'", "''") + "'"
+
+	  elif type(x) in (types.IntType, types.LongType, types.FloatType):
+		  pass
+	  elif x is None:
+		  x = 'NULL'
+	  elif type(x) in (types.ListType, types.TupleType):
+		  x = '(%s)' % string.join(map(lambda x: str(_quote(x)), x), ',')
+	  elif hasattr(x, '__pg_repr__'):
+		  x = x.__pg_repr__()
+	  else:
+		  raise InterfaceError, 'do not know how to handle type %s' % type(x)
+
+	  return x
+
+  def _quoteparams(s, params):
+	  if hasattr(params, 'has_key'):
+		  x = {}
+		  for k, v in params.items():
+			  x[k] = _quote(v)
+		  params = x
+	  else:
+		  params = tuple(map(_quote, params))
+
+	  return s % params
 
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