No one has replied, so I worked up a patch that I will apply in a few
days.  Let me know if you don't like it.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Andrew Johnson wrote:
> Not sure if you're the right person to be talking to here, but the recent
> CVS pacthes to the module belong to you, so here goes.
> 
> pgdb.connect() seems to be broken on Python 2.0.1 (which ships with
> Slackware 8), and perhaps on other Pythons, haven't checked.  Something in
> the _pg.connect() call isn't working.  I think the problem stems from the
> fact that 'host' is a named parameter of both _pg.connect and pgdb.connect,
> and so Python treats it as a variable assignment, not a named parameter.
> 
> In any case, rewriting the call without named parameters solved the problem.
> 
> Instead of:
> 
>        cnx = _pg.connect(host = dbhost, dbname = dbbase, port = dbport,
>                                        opt = dbopt, tty = dbtty,
>                                        user = dbuser, passwd = dbpassw
> 
> use:
> 
>         cnx = _pg.connect(dbbase, dbhost, dbport, dbopt,
>                                 dbtty, dbuser, dbpasswd)
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Johnson (ajohnson@lynn.ci-n.com)
> 

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Index: src/interfaces/python/pgdb.py
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/interfaces/python/pgdb.py,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -c -r1.10 pgdb.py
*** src/interfaces/python/pgdb.py	19 Mar 2002 02:47:57 -0000	1.10
--- src/interfaces/python/pgdb.py	18 Apr 2002 02:10:20 -0000
***************
*** 337,343 ****
  ### module interface
  
  # connects to a database
! def connect(dsn = None, user = None, password = None, host = None, database = None):
  	# first get params from DSN
  	dbport = -1
  	dbhost = ""
--- 337,343 ----
  ### module interface
  
  # connects to a database
! def connect(dsn = None, user = None, password = None, xhost = None, database = None):
  	# first get params from DSN
  	dbport = -1
  	dbhost = ""
***************
*** 364,372 ****
  		dbpasswd = password
  	if database != None:
  		dbbase = database
! 	if host != None:
  		try:
! 			params = string.split(host, ":")
  			dbhost = params[0]
  			dbport = int(params[1])
  		except:
--- 364,372 ----
  		dbpasswd = password
  	if database != None:
  		dbbase = database
! 	if xhost != None:
  		try:
! 			params = string.split(xhost, ":")
  			dbhost = params[0]
  			dbport = int(params[1])
  		except:
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:12:10 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: PyGreSQL bug