help in understanding the sqlite3 backend

[Sumit J]

Hello,

I am trying to understand the sqlite3 backend, especially the register_converter part.

I wanted to understand why are those converters put in place?
I commented out this registration and even then was able to to query the database in django shell via the ORM..
Even raw query execution returned correct results.

Is it there to maintain backward compatibility ? (guessing)

Thank you