From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 08:45:13 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
      
   > On 7/7/2025 8:26 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 19:28:37 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> ... dynamic string manipulation is rarely used for database access. It   
   >>> is a code smell.   
   >>   
   >> I posted examples some years ago in this group about how useful they   
   >> are. Want to revisit those?   
   >   
   > You were also told how it should have been done in Python and how it   
   > would be done in Cobol.   
      
   Except the alternative Python versions didn’t actually work.   
      
   I can’t decide whether there is actually widespread fear about the   
   possibilities of dynamically-generated SQL, or just a lack of imagination.   
      
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