From bd43869b8ccd2756f2de7152af58028d7886bf1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Bayer <mike_mp@zzzcomputing.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 16:01:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] etc

---
 lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/sybase/base.py |  4 ++--
 lib/sqlalchemy/types.py                | 23 ++++++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/sybase/base.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/sybase/base.py
index 775d2b3b09..0612e8c382 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/sybase/base.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/sybase/base.py
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 # the MIT License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
 
 """
-Sybase database backend.
+Sybase iAnywhere backend.  This is not a full backend for Sybase ASE.
+
 
---- THIS BACKEND NOT YET TESTED ON SQLALCHEMY 0.6 ---
 
 Known issues / TODO:
 
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/types.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/types.py
index ff7e466782..fcf74c461a 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/types.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/types.py
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ types.
 For more information see the SQLAlchemy documentation on types.
 
 """
-__all__ = [ 'TypeEngine', 'TypeDecorator', 'AbstractType',
+__all__ = [ 'TypeEngine', 'TypeDecorator', 'AbstractType', 'UserDefinedType',
             'INT', 'CHAR', 'VARCHAR', 'NCHAR', 'NVARCHAR','TEXT', 'Text', 'FLOAT',
-            'NUMERIC', 'DECIMAL', 'TIMESTAMP', 'DATETIME', 'CLOB', 'BLOB',
+            'NUMERIC', 'DECIMAL', 'TIMESTAMP', 'DATETIME', 'CLOB', 'NCLOB', 'BLOB',
             'BOOLEAN', 'SMALLINT', 'INTEGER','DATE', 'TIME',
             'String', 'Integer', 'SmallInteger',
             'Numeric', 'Float', 'DateTime', 'Date', 'Time', 'Binary',
@@ -547,8 +547,6 @@ class Unicode(String):
     :attr:`~sqlalchemy.engine.base.Dialect.encoding`, which defaults
     to `utf-8`.
 
-    A synonym for String(length, convert_unicode=True, assert_unicode='warn').
-
     """
 
     __visit_name__ = 'unicode'
@@ -570,7 +568,12 @@ class Unicode(String):
         super(Unicode, self).__init__(length=length, **kwargs)
 
 class UnicodeText(Text):
-    """A synonym for Text(convert_unicode=True, assert_unicode='warn')."""
+    """An unbounded-length Unicode string.
+    
+    See :class:`Unicode` for details on the unicode
+    behavior of this object.
+    
+    """
 
     __visit_name__ = 'unicode_text'
 
@@ -956,12 +959,18 @@ class TEXT(Text):
     __visit_name__ = 'TEXT'
 
 class CLOB(Text):
-    """The SQL CLOB type."""
+    """The CLOB type.
+    
+    This type is found in Oracle and Informix.
+    """
 
     __visit_name__ = 'CLOB'
 
 class NCLOB(Text):
-    """The SQL NCLOB type."""
+    """The NCLOB type.
+    
+    TODO: is this only Oracle ?
+    """
 
     __visit_name__ = 'NCLOB'
 
-- 
2.47.3