FDB release 1.2 is out:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb

New Features

* fdb.schema submodule for access to / work with database metadata.
* fdb.utils submodule with various helper classes and functions.
* New fdb.Connection.schema property for access to database schema.
* New ConnectionWithSchema connection class that provides more direct
access to database schema than Connection.
* New fdb.Connection.firebird_version, fdb.Connection.version and
fdb.Connection.engine_version properties.
* New Connection.ods read only property that returns ODS version number
of connected database. There are also new module-level constants
ODS_FB_20, ODS_FB_21 and ODS_FB_25.
* New fdb.Connection.query_transaction property. This is ReadOnly
ReadCommitted transaction that could be active indefinitely without
blocking garbage collection. It’s used internally to query metadata, but
it’s generally useful.

Improvements

* Optional PEP 249 (Python DB API 2.0) Extensions

- Connection.Error, Connection.ProgrammingError, etc.

All exception classes defined by the DB API standard are exposed on
the Connection objects as attributes (in addition to being available at
module scope).

- Cursor.connection

This read-only attribute return a reference to the Connection
object on which the cursor was created.

* Cursor.transaction read-only attribute returns a reference to the
Transaction object on which the cursor was created.
* Optimized wekref management, especially for PreparedStatement.
* create_database now supports two methods for database screation. You
can specify CREATE DATABASE statement (as before) or provide set of
named database parameters (SQL statement is created automatically from
them).
* Functions connection and create_database now take optional keyword
parameter connection_class to obtain instances of different class
instead Connection.
* Support for legacy (pre-2.5) shutdown mode with mode
fdb.services.SHUT_LEGACY.
* fdb.Cursor.executemany() returns self, so it could be used directly as
iterator.
* Documentation improvements.

Bugs Fixed

* Unregistered: buffers parameter of fdb.connection doesn’t support
values greater than 255.
* Unregistered: Lowercase character set name passed to fdb.connect may
result in wrong funcion of automatic data conversions and other failures
(exceptions raised).

Next version 1.3 will have similar support for monitoring tables.

best regards
Pavel Cisar
IBPhoenix