bug in PyGreSQL module
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at lemburg.com
Wed Apr 14 04:32:55 EDT 1999
Jeremy Hylton wrote:
>
> I found an apparent bug in the Python interface to PostgreSQL. I
> tried sending a query to the author but haven't heard back, so I'm
> looking for other users to see if they have run into the problem.
> I have a table with lots of int fields, some of which of NULL. When I
> do a Python query, the PyGreSQL module converts the NULL to 0 instead
> of None, which is the value I expected. Is that a reasonable
> expectation?
>
> The PyGreSQL module doesn't implement the DB API, but I checked there
> anyway. Alas, it didn't say anything about how to handle NULL.
Database interface modules should use None as reprensentation
of SQL NULL values on the Python side of things; in fact most
interfaces already take this intuitive approach.
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