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gistfile1.txt

import informixdb
class TransactionInformixDict:
    """A lightweight wrapper for a DB-API 'cursor' object.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
    Relays attribute access to the DB cursor. That is, you can call                                                                                                                                                                                                              
    execute(), fetchall(), etc., and they will be called on the                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
    underlying DB-API cursor object. Attributes will also be                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
    retrieved from there.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
    """
    _cursor = None

    def __init__(self, pool, connection):
        self._pool = pool
        self._connection = connection
        self.reopen()

    def close(self):
        _cursor = self._cursor
        self._cursor = None
        _cursor.close()

    def reopen(self):
        if self._cursor is not None:
            self.close()

        try:
            self._cursor = self._connection.cursor(rowformat=informixdb.ROW_AS_DICT)
            return
        except:
            if not self._pool.reconnect:
                raise
            else:
                log.err(None, "Cursor creation failed")

        if self._pool.noisy:
            log.msg('Connection lost, reconnecting')

        self.reconnect()
        self._cursor = self._connection.cursor(rowformat=informixdb.ROW_AS_DICT)

    def reconnect(self):
        self._connection.reconnect()
        self._cursor = None

    def __getattr__(self, name):
        return getattr(self._cursor, name)


class informixDictCP( adbapi.ConnectionPool ):
    transactionFactory = TransactionInformixDict