Logged In: YES user_id=619560 I spent some time getting the two include files merged together, only to discover that Py_BUILD_CORE is __NOT__ defined when building modules, only when building stuff linked directly into the core interpreter. Perhaps this ought to be defined when building the modules with setup.py? At any rate, I cannot proceed along the route suggested without this problem being resolved. On the DateFromTicks(), TimestampFromTicks(), TimeFromTicks() issue, I'm not sure that there is much benefit to including a C API for this since if the datetime module becomes the standard method for managing datetime objects, there is no point in having the DB API modules provide something that the datetime module already provides, right? During the transition period the few lines of code needed can be posted. If you disagree I can certainly provide the few lines as part of the patch but I suspect you will find resistance to having this included by Tim Peters, the maintainer (I believe) of the datetime module. Feel free to correct me... :-)