changeset 469:acba268c93cc 1.7.1

clarified do_connect docstring
author catherine@dellzilla
date Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:23:53 -0500
parents 750da8dd1253
children a40993ec8995
files sqlpython/sqlpython.py
diffstat 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/sqlpython/sqlpython.py	Tue Mar 02 19:11:52 2010 -0500
+++ b/sqlpython/sqlpython.py	Wed Mar 03 13:23:53 2010 -0500
@@ -131,7 +131,13 @@
                                     help='Database user name to connect as')])
     def do_connect(self, arg, opts):
  
-        '''Opens the DB connection'''
+        '''Opens the DB connection.  Some sample valid connection strings:
+        
+        connect oracle://user:password@SID
+        connect postgres://user:password@hostname/dbname
+        connect user/password@SID  (Oracle is the default RDBMS target)
+        connect --postgres --hostname=hostname dbname username
+        connect --mysql dbname username'''
         if opts.closeall:
             self.closeall()
             return